Cynthia Linkas has poems in The Aurorean, Chiron, Heart, Poetry & Prose, Pegasus, Poem, A Time of Singing, Common Ground Review, Quill and Parchment, Tipton Poetry Review, and Avocet, A Journal of Nature Poetry. Her previous books are a poetry collection, Tumbled Time (Kelsay Books, 2020), and a novel, VOWS (Enroute Press, 2023). This chapbook, I Have a Place, is a collection of poems and portraits expressing her trust and hope in a Creator—of creatures, trees, trails, heartaches, joys, and loss.
Many of her poems are intensely personal, peopled with husband, children, and grandchildren, pets, and even an old cigarette roller. But readers will find their own loves here—her voice invites the universal moment, of understanding and memory. She places belief and poetry side by side as languages for the elusive, imperceptible something beyond the conscious mind. Her truehearted search for beauty and timelessness in nature will renew your own longings.
A professional singer and lifelong music teacher, she especially loves Renaissance choral music and performed for years with Convivium Musicum of Boston and the Christ Church Choir of Hamilton-Wenham, Massachusetts. She was born and raised in a French-Canadian, Catholic neighborhood in Central Falls, Rhode Island. Central Falls is one square mile and densely populated. Ever since, Linkas has loved nature’s freedom and the quiet of trail walks.
Website:
cynthialinkas.com
Paperback: 78 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (November 9, 2026)