Spring 2025 Writers Series: S. Hazen Guthrie, “we held our breath, the birds and I”

S. Hazen Guthrie is the author of the newly released book, we held our breath, the birds and I (Finishing Line Press, 2024). She is also author and  lead artist of Shakespeare in the Classroom and a lecturer nationwide for the National Endowment for the Arts and The Poetry Foundation: POETRY OUT LOUD. She was recently named a Belfast-Nashville Fellow at Queen’s & Belmont Universities.  Guthrie is a member of Alabama’s Coweeta Poets and the Sundial Writers, and can be heard on WLRH Alabama Public Radio. Her poetry has appeared in No’Ala, The Rose in the World, and in the anthologies 52 Days of Sun (Madison Press, 2022), The Brightest Day (WLRH, 2023), and ’24 Year in Review (Outloud Huntsville, 2024).