Jeannie Piekos is a poet, writer, cancer survivor. Author of Buoyancy: a memoir and subject of the documentary, Buoyancy: Living Between Dualities
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Jeannie Piekos
poet and writer

"Finding peace with my situation meant learning to love what felt broken in my life—my heart, my body and the cells that went awry..."
​Jeannie Piekos is the author of the chapbook Held Up To
The Light
and 
Buoyancy, a memoir. ​Jeannie is the subject
of the documentary Buoyancy - Living Between Dualities
Below the blueness of the sky today I said your name as prayer.
Your name now,
New Beginnings.  Your name: Kaleidoscope of Second Chances.
 With my molecules and letters. With gratitude and grace.  
In redemption, restoration. I said
 your name  as prayer.
 Your name now, Possibility. Your name, now Transformation.
In the chapel of the woods today  I said your name as prayer.  
--excerpt from Your Name As Prayer
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Praise for Buoyancy

Jeannie begets love and that love grows from her and beyond her and then grows some more. Her family, friends, community, art, poems, gardens, beloved dogs, fun-loving smart-ass sense of humor, candor, vulnerability and indomitableness are revealed in these pages. --Amy Ballestad, Heart of the Beast Puppet & Mask Theatre
       --Amy Ballestad, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater
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So much love is in this memoir! Only a fine poet whose touch is light as a feather can levitate her readers with words the way Jeannie Piekos does with her cancer memoir, Buoyancy. This book and its author are beautiful and brave and strong and will make readers feel beautiful and brave and strong.

--Mike Hazard, writer

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