Mark Nepo – Reduced to Joy
Each person is born with an unencumbered spot, free of expectation and regret, free of ambition and embarrassment, free of fear and worry; an umbilical spot of grace where we were each first touched by God, no matter the name you give to this Unity. Regardless of subject matter, this is the only thing worth teaching: how to uncover that original center and how to live there once it is restored. We are all conduits for this great timeless center.
-Mark Nepo
Mark Nepo: Honors and Awards
Seven Thousand Ways To Listen won the 2012 Books for a Better Life Award, and was cited by Spirituality and Health Magazine as one of the Best Spiritual Books of 2012.
The Exquisite Risk was cited by Spirituality and Health Magazine as one of the Best Spiritual Books of 2000.
The Book of Awakening was a NYTimes #1 Bestseller in January of 2011, chosen as one of Oprah’s Ultimate Favorite Things, November, 2010, was a finalist for the 2000 Books for a Better Life Award, and was cited by Spirituality and Health Magazine as one of the Best Spiritual Books of 2000.
Nominated for the 1995 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, for Acre of Light.
1st Writer-in-Residence for the Writers Voice at Silver Bay, the Silver Bay YMCA Conference
Center, Silver Bay, NY, August 1994. Designed and taught a Masters Poetry Workshop.
Invited to guest-edit the 1994 annual issue of The Journal of Pastoral Counseling, Iona College; centered on my essay, A Terrible Knowledge.
Winner of the 1987 Ithaca House Series Competition, for God, The Maker of the Bed, and the Painter.
Awarded a Fellowship to Yaddo, August 1984, to work on Fire Without Witness.
Connect with Mark Nepo at http://www.marknepo.com
