Creating in Dangerous Times is a universal invitation to reclaim our human birthright of creativity. Each poem serves as a timely incantation—one might even say a ”prescription”—for creative malaise. Designed to stir the memory of our shared humanity, Snowber explores themes of presence and the healing arts, gently nudging us all the while to reawaken, reflect upon, and reconnect with our latent creativity. A beautiful and necessary guide and a deeply empathetic approach to healing and reconciling ourselves, one another, and the planet.
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Celeste Nazeli Snowber, PhD, is a dancer, poet, writer, and award-winning educator who serves as a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. She has published and performed widely, with books including Embodied Inquiry: Writing, Living, and Being through the Body; Dance, Place and Poetics: Site-Specific Performance as a Portal to Knowing; and three collections of poetry.. Celeste has performed and spoken internationally in concert venues, galleries, museums, conferences, and various outdoor spaces.
In Creating in Dangerous Times, Celeste speaks to the depths of all that I can/not access inside myself. She shakes loose what I have so tightly contained and holds with care all that I am afraid to release. This text is a collection of remedies to living in a world that has forgotten the richness of life. It is a gift, a provocation, a plea, and a prayer. Re/imagine yourself through her words and re/discover the alchemy within your humanness.
~Ellyn Lyle, Dean and Professor, Cape Breton University.
At a time when we need them most, Celeste Snowber’s wise and gentle words offer both solace and strength. These provocations, borne of empathy and connection, are brimming with hope and humanity.
~Lorri Neilsen Glenn, author of The Old Moon in Her Arms: Women I Have Known and Been.
Creating in Dangerous Times is a powerful invitation to embrace artistry, embodiment, and resilience. With deep wisdom and poetic grace, Celeste Snowber reminds us that even amidst uncertainty, we can create, move, and live fully. In a world longing for connection and authenticity, her work offers a vital path to creativity and presence.
~Jodi Proznick, award-winning bassist, composer, educator, producer.
In a world drunk on productivity and gripped in the tyranny of the urgent this book is a provocation and invitation to s l o w down. Take these templates, infuse them with your starved senses, your thirsty images, your urgent dreams, until you carve a temple of presence and renewal, until you allow the possible to dance with the impossible. Repeat daily.
~Daniela Elza, author of SCAR/CITY & Is This an Illness or an Accident? (2025).
$22.95 paperback
9781990137730
6 x 9 | 160 pages
