Peg Edera


Poet, Counselor, and Retreat Guide

About

Peg Edera is a Portland-based poet, spiritual director and Quaker whose work “carries the quiet force of living fully — through love, loss, caregiving, mother-daughter reckoning, and the sacred in the ordinary”. With three full-length collections and numerous publications, her poems invite us to tend presence, lament with courage, and find voice in the whisper of life’s unfolding.

Books

Kind Words & Recognitions

Peg Edera’s poems offer the tough tenderness it takes to live through hard times.

KIM STAFFORD

Peg Edera’s book takes flight, opening its pages like wings and lifting us up poem by poem to see the possibility of a new creation — a mended, reclaimed creation flying the banner of love.

ANNIE LIGHTHEART

Peg’s courageous and beautiful poems move with and beyond grief to become songs like “exhales of prayers”

ANDREA POTOS

A place where one can begin to trust that beyond hope, there is a redemptive glance.

JOHN FOX

She writes of beauty as an identity to be recognized and grief as a labyrinth to be honored with loving kindness

GWENDOLYN MORGAN