Sandy Coomer is a poet, artist, and endurance athlete living in Brentwood, TN. Her poetry has been published in numerous journals and anthologies, and she is the author of three poetry chapbooks, including Rivers Within Us (Unsolicited Press). Over 130 of her paintings have been published in literary art magazines, as well as being featured in local exhibits and art shows. Sandy is the founding editor of the online poetry journal Rockvale Review, the curator of the ekphrastic poetry project 20/20 Vision, a Poetic Response to Photography, and the founder and director of Rockvale Writers' Colony, located in College Grove, TN. She is a teacher, a dreamer, an explorer, and an Ironman triathlete. Her favorite word is 'Believe.'

Books by Sandy Coomer:

Other poems on the web by Sandy Coomer:
Three poems
Three poems
"River Man"
"Eucharist"
"Sun and Rain"
"Begonia"

Sandy Coomer's Website.

Sandy Coomer on Twitter.

About Available Light:

"Sandy Coomer's work spans heaven and earth in this new book of poems. A good dreamer, she visits invisible worlds, and shines a lyrical light on this visceral home of ours, this body, this world. 'I'm smoke and smite,' she sings, 'the bright trill of the whistle and the blink of the crossties.' So much to admire here, to read and reread, by a poet who spends much of her time promoting, nurturing the work of others. It's surely time for her own work to come into its own, as it does beautifully, gracefully, fiercely, in Available Light."
—Marilyn Kallet

"What is to give light must endure burning,' writes Viktor Frankl, and as much fire as light flares in Sandy Coomer's debut collection, Available Light. This painterly, searching work holds aloft its torch of 'memory and mercies,' bearing witness to the loves and losses that burn deepest in our 'blue-bruised hearts.' Light shifts for better or worse in our lives, just as these poems shine and storm, compelled toward unfailing brilliance."
—Linda Parsons

"'Unlearn the cage you built / to keep yourself safe... / and let it begin in the breath.' Sandy Coomer's Available Light dares the reader to enter this collection of visionary and carefully crafted poems, beginning with those who 'already see / this world is a balance of shadows.' 'The Minotaur's Last Interview' celebrates a lifetime of experiences, a speaker determined to share both the good and the not-so-good circumstances of this world: 'When you write my story, don't leave out any part of it, even the ending.' In artful lines, these lush poems remind the reader that 'I am as close to love as I allow / myself to be' while also urging her to be generous and vulnerable on this journey called life: 'So what if my heart is broken. / That's part of a heart's job.' Just like the 'Visit from my Lost Child' who 'unzips my skin, climbs in, wraps his arms / around my heart,' Coomer's poems masterfully weave around the reader's heart and linger, long after the cover is closed."
—KB Ballentine