When We Wake in the Night

by Tami Haaland

In When We Wake in the Night, Tami Haaland's poems are deft sketches of memory and experience, their brisk lines forming efficient strokes that paint vivid pictures, vividly felt.

102 pages, Paperback

First published May 11, 2012

About the author

Tami Haaland is the author of four books of poetry: If I Had Said Beauty (Lost Horse Press, 2025), What Does Not Return (Lost Horse Press, 2018) When We Wake in the Night (WordTech Editions, 2012), and Breath in Every Room (2nd edition, Red Hen Press 2021; 1st edition, Story Line Press, 2001), winner of the Nicholas Roerich First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in Ascent, Consequence, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, High Desert Journal, The Ecopoetry Anthology, Healing the Divide, and many other periodicals and anthologies. Haaland¿s work has also been featured on The Writer¿s Almanac, Verse Daily, and American Life in Poetry. She was the recipient of a Governor's Humanities Award, an Artist Innovation Award from Montana Arts Council, and is a former Montana's Poet Laureate.

Reviews

[Beverly J. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow, all the feels, ALL THE FEELS, sigh. I felt like my heart had been ripped out, stomped on then buried. She is Montana's Poet Laureate for a reason.