the myth of me

Centa Therese has work in many journals, including Tower (audio collages), Meridian, Pisgah Review, Harpur Palate, Hurricane Review, Eclipse, and DrumVoices Revue. Her poem “Night Gardening” is forthcoming in Ploughshares in 2026. She has authored the letterset edition Blameless Recognition of Natural Light (Clamshell Press, 2022) and the lyric memoir The Illuminated Field; Cultivating a Small World (independently published, 2014). Additionally, she edited Becoming Athena: Poems by Women in Recovery (independently published, 2024). Centa is a language arts educator, a photoartist, a Neuroaffective Touch practitioner, and a Creative Resilience coach. Her collection of prose poems, Night Gardening, is currently a semi-finalist with Sixteen Rivers Press. Visit her websites:centatherese.comcentatheresestudios.com Paperback: 88 pagesPublisher: Kelsay Books (June 5, 2025)