Advent Calendar Day 22 - December 3
Cover reveal for The Beautiful Foolishness, poems by Wayne Lee—and excerpts from the book.
This poetry collection will be published in Spring 2026. Preorders will ship before publication.
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Early praise for The Beautiful Foolishness
“If you delight in such wondrous lines and musings, you will cherish Lee’s short paradoxical poems and images where you can deliberate, ponder, and expand.”
—Scott Wiggerman, author of Beginning and Ending with Emily
woodpecker
under the eaves—
get up, lazybones!
Song Before Sleep
The broad-tailed hummers
sing high in the piñon.
There is a place inside
that wants to be filled,
but first it must be emptied.
What calm do you carry
like a rare gift
you have secreted away
for just the right occasion?
The world needs listeners.
Silence is the bed
where all sound sleeps
before it sings, sings
before it sleeps.
my bicycle chain
is broken. Sitting still is good
as getting there.
Read more of these delightful and contemplative poems in THE BEAUTIFUL FOOLISHNESS from Wayne Lee.
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About the Author
Wayne Lee is a writer, editor, and teacher. He has worked as a commercial fisherman in Alaska, a dancer and musician at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, an anodizing technician in Boulder, Colorado, a waiter at the Space Needle, classical music critic at the The Seattle Times, managing editor of a seafood trade magazine, a fisheries marketing consultant in Indonesia, a college instructor and learning specialist, owner of a tutoring company, and a public information officer for five different government agencies. His poems have appeared in Tupelo Press, Slipstream, Nimrod, The New Guard, The Lowestoft Chronicle, Writer’s Digest, The California Quarterly, The New England Anthology of Poets, Poets Against the War and many other journals and anthologies. He was awarded the 2012 Fischer Prize and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and four Best of the Net Awards. Lee is the founder and host of the online poetry-meditation community Tuesday Poetry Practice. He lives in Santa Fe.