Celeste Newbrough
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Celeste Newbrough is an American novelist, essayist, poet
, and painter
. She is the daughter of Norita Massicot Newbrough, a Southern representation painter and lives in Berkeley, California
and in Santa Fe, New Mexico
.
Newbrough’s work includes a novel, The Zanscripts, and a book of poems, Pagan Psalms, both published by Onecraft in Berkeley. Poems from Pagan Psalms have been translated into European anthologies and used for both liturgical readings and rituals. The San Francisco Bay Times described the book as “tribal and exalted" and it was cited in by Carolyn Merchant
as a source work in environmental spirituality.
The Zanscripts has been collected in the Shields Library of the University of California, Davis
and elsewhere. Here poems and artwork have been anthologized in Woman Visions, Tit; An Anthology of New England Women’s Art and Writing, The Carquinez Review, The Harrington Literary Quarterly, Broadway West Press Picks: The Best of the Millennium, Her, Exit-76, and The Wilderness Sampler.
Newbrough was featured poet at the 1990 Conference on Ecofeminism held at the University of California in Berkeley. She has also read at other conferences and events in San Francisco, Hanover, New Orleans, San Antonio, Philadelphia, and Seattle.
Her nonfiction works have been published, quoted, and cited in numerous publications, including the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women, International Archives of the Second Wave, Matrix, Distaff, and the New Orleans Times-Picayune
, and San Francisco Bay Times.
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
, and painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
. She is the daughter of Norita Massicot Newbrough, a Southern representation painter and lives in Berkeley, California
Berkeley, California
Berkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington...
and in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-largest city in the state and is the seat of . Santa Fe had a population of 67,947 in the 2010 census...
.
Newbrough’s work includes a novel, The Zanscripts, and a book of poems, Pagan Psalms, both published by Onecraft in Berkeley. Poems from Pagan Psalms have been translated into European anthologies and used for both liturgical readings and rituals. The San Francisco Bay Times described the book as “tribal and exalted" and it was cited in by Carolyn Merchant
Carolyn Merchant
Carolyn Merchant is an American ecofeminist philosopher and historian of science most famous for her theory on 'The Death of Nature', whereby she identifies the Enlightenment as the period when science began to atomize, objectify and dissect nature, foretelling its eventual conception as inert...
as a source work in environmental spirituality.
The Zanscripts has been collected in the Shields Library of the University of California, Davis
University of California, Davis
The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...
and elsewhere. Here poems and artwork have been anthologized in Woman Visions, Tit; An Anthology of New England Women’s Art and Writing, The Carquinez Review, The Harrington Literary Quarterly, Broadway West Press Picks: The Best of the Millennium, Her, Exit-76, and The Wilderness Sampler.
Newbrough was featured poet at the 1990 Conference on Ecofeminism held at the University of California in Berkeley. She has also read at other conferences and events in San Francisco, Hanover, New Orleans, San Antonio, Philadelphia, and Seattle.
Her nonfiction works have been published, quoted, and cited in numerous publications, including the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women, International Archives of the Second Wave, Matrix, Distaff, and the New Orleans Times-Picayune
New Orleans Times-Picayune
The Times-Picayune is a daily newspaper published in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.-History:Established as The Picayune in 1837 by Francis Lumsden and George Wilkins Kendall, the paper's initial price was one picayune—a Spanish coin equivalent to 6¼¢ .Under Eliza Jane Nicholson, who inherited the...
, and San Francisco Bay Times.