S. Hazen Guthrie debuted her first book of poetry in 2024, we held our breath, the birds and I. Her new book small … poetry of a certain amount of faith will release in 2026, published by Finishing Line Press. Her poetry appears in the new anthology The Space Between Light and Dark, WLRH, June 2025; and she is a contributor to Out Loud Huntsville’s 2023-2025 Year in Review anthologies. Most recently, Guthrie produced/directed Real Men Can Name a Kitten, the poetry of Alan Burkett, Aubrey Fannin, Grace Dellis Wyatt, and S. Hazen Guthrie, a Reader’s Theatre at the Signals Museum, Huntsville, Alabama. Ms. Guthrie performs Shakespeare, contemporary and classical poetry, and her original work internationally. With pianist and husband, Ron Guthrie, she performs major works of music and spoken word – Poulenc’s Babar the Little Elephant, 2024-25 and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay, 2023. Appearing at the Alabama Center for the Arts, Ms. Guthrie was featured in the 2024-25 Writer’s Series, Athens State University and Calhoun Community College. Guthrie teaches for the Summer Writing Summit, Athens State University, 2023-2025. She is the author of Shakespeare in the Classroom, The City Shakespeare Projects, and The Teacher’s Poetry Companion.
PRAISE:
small… is a rich, extended spiritual meditation that will reward repeated consultation. It reminds us that the voice in the whirlwind which speaks The Sacred is not the roar, but the small, still whisper at the storm’s calm, quiet eye – brief respite from the rages we have endured to attain to the moment of revelation, and courage for such tempest as may yet surely come. (“Burning reveals trinity / Current carves worlds” – “Omniscience.”) The poems are finely crafted, lapidary, portable, each one a gem, a token, a memento. Read one in the morning – you’ll find yourself reaching for it in your mind’s pocket throughout the day, mulling and treasuring its insights, vexed and challenged by the queries it poses.
–-Tony Crunk, author of Coal Man’s Son and Living in the Resurrection
“The world is alive apart from us,” writes S. Hazen Guthrie in this new collection of poems that seeks to bring that world’s life close enough to touch. With a hint of Zen and a keen awareness of the strains and possibilities of this exact moment, Guthrie fashions a new language to capture what is fleeting, if not small at all: our words, our faith, and our hope for our future.
–Linda Frost, Ph.D., Dean of the Honors College, The U. of Tennessee at Chattanooga
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