ABOUT
Christina Watkins
Poet
Christina Watkins B.A. M.Div. teacher, soul friend, pilgrim, poet. I was born in Southern Ontario, Canada. Since I married my husband, who is a geologist, I have lived in Australia, Toronto, Mexico, Northern Ontario, Northern Quebec, Colorado, Arizona, and British Columbia. I have always and still do love to walk and hike and dance, listen to music and write poems, to read and go to the movies and attend theatrical or musical productions. I am a life long learner and life long teacher, I hope.
Poetry Books
Poems for the Journey
Poems~Poemas
Sky and Earth Cielo Y Tierra
Sky and Earth Cielo Y Tierra is a collection of lyrical poems written in both English and Spanish. The languages face each other—one on one side of the page, the other across from it.
In the Speaking of Your Name
by Christina Watkins
Download the hymn music “In the Speaking of Your Name“
Sample Reading: Wind Whispers
A pantoum poem by Christina Watkins from her book “Poemas Poemas”
Sample Reading: To My Mother
A poem by Christina Watkins
Sample Reading: Close Together
A poem by Christina Watkins
Latest Media
Christina Watkins on This Week In America Podcast
Latest Blogs
How To Write a Sestina
It is fun and easy to write a sestina. There are two sestinas in Poems for the Journey: ‘Waves,’ p.11 and ‘Diamonds and Sutras, ’p.15. The sestina form allows the poet to get lines up on the screen and then play around with the words that come before the end word in...
The Way Things Are Is Large
The way things are is large, too wonderful to understand.Love teaches by story, portrays our needs.But what is it that makes us human? Story tells of a garden, suggests a plan.We learn which are flowers, are warned of weeds.The way things are is large, too wonderful...
The Mexican Jaguar
Early in our days in SonoraI went with my husband to a field campby jeep. Then bony backed mules.The eight Mexicans there were shy aswe said Buenos días to each other.Next morning they answered my Buenos días with Buenos días le dé Dios.It became like that.I stayed in...