Danita Dodson’s third poetry collection, Between Gone and Everlasting  (Wipf and Stock Publishers), launched in May 2024 and is now available for purchase. Her previous titles include Trailing the Azimuth (2021) and The Medicine Woods (2022).

About Between Gone and Everlasting

Between Gone and Everlasting is an exploration of life, love, and the light that remains after loss. In this skillfully crafted collection, Danita weaves past and present, inviting the reader to join a reverent space honoring and celebrating people and place in love songs, eulogies, odes, and psalms.

Praise for Between Gone and Everlasting

“In Between Gone and Everlasting, Danita Dodson crafts love songs to counter mourning, to remember and travel old roads, and to recollect mementos both tangible and heartfelt. Quilts fluttering on a line beckon the reader to stand in the present and revisit a world and loved ones now dead and to worship in cathedrals of green, draw strength from the earth, and perhaps receive a trailside baptism.”—Jane Hicks, author of The Safety of Small Things

“In Between Gone and Everlasting, Danita Dodson’s voice captures the magic of the ordinary, where‘the real miracle was that I noticed.’ These poems celebrate a lifetime of experiences imbued with humor, sorrow, and love that come from insight learned (sometimes too late). Offering a poignant reminder of both the joys and insecurities of growing up and growing old, the poet recognizes loss in all its forms as she honors the truth of ‘leaving a signature of what you’ve lived, / just like trees and rocks leave marks.’ This well-crafted collection is one the reader will reach for again and again.” —KB Ballentine, author of Spirit of Wild

Between Gone and Everlasting  (Wipf and Stock Publishers) is now available. Learn more about Wipf and Stock Publishers.

About the Author

Danita Dodson is an educator, literary scholar, and the author of three poetry collections: Trailing the Azimuth (2021), The Medicine Woods (2022), and the recent Between Gone and Everlasting (2024). She is also the co-editor of the pedagogical book Teachers Teaching Nonviolence. Her poems are anchored in the landscape and people of East Tennessee and have appeared in Salvation South, Amethyst Review, Tennessee Voices Anthology, and elsewhere. At the Poetry Society of Tennessee’s annual festival in April 2024, her poem “Bits and Pieces” was awarded the Best of Fest prize. Danita has a PhD in English from the University of Southern Mississippi. She is a native of Sneedville, Tennessee, where she hikes and explores local history connected to the wilderness. Read more at http://www.danitadodson.com.