Inspired by her Kentucky childhood and ancestry dating back to Bourbon County in 1785, Amy Templeton Buckley's poetry and paintings seek to create a sense of community, of home: "A shared space: a community independent of time and place; concentric circles which feed us back to each other".

Themes in her writing address: The nature of time and how is it we are all connected? And, are our lives now so widely flung and mechanized that love affairs become nothing more than an efficient way to feel again?" Journal credits include The Adirondack Review, Free Verse Poetry Journal, Poetic License News, Poetic Voices and Steel Point Quarterly.

Buckley's paintings are in private collections in both Kentucky and California. Buckley works primarily in acrylics and mixed media collage - in subject matter ranging from urban isolation to mythology. Her work is available for purchase and she is also currently accepting commissions.

Amy Templeton Buckley currently resides in Palm Springs and Laguna Beach, California.

Publication Credits

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Art Gallery: Original Mixed Media Collage & Acrylic Paintings

Articles & Vignettes:
A Few Leaves from Granny's Family Tree: From the Ku Klux Klan to Harvard: a study in Southern peculiarities.
Coming Home: On Kentucky, red heads, blue grass and other misnomers.
Falling to My Knees: A reflection on Autumns past and present with a brief homage to the sense of smell.
I'll Be Seeing You: Dreams, conversations and the afterlife (the enduring love affair of my great-grandparents).
Marching Through Midtown: A beginner's attempt at social reform.
Datelines: Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
Plane Talk: An open letter to the airlines and why what we really need are housemothers.

Poetry:
Selections from Absinthe in Absentia
(A correspondence transcending time, wires, cancer and even Prague.)
Selections from Blood on the Moon
(We're all becoming and it's never comfortable - the pulls on our psyche and lacerations to our pride,
but just as the moon balances tides and winks at small children...we too can be born anew.)
Selections from Blues Beneath My Feet
(A Kentucky girl, I'll always feel at home with blues beneath my feet and the well worn voices of those
before ringing in my ears...) Click here to read my older poems from this section (1994 - 1996).
Selections from The Collage Manifesto
"It has been said: The whole is more than the sum of its parts. It is more correct to say that the whole
is something else than the sum of its parts, because summing up is a meaningless procedure, whereas
the whole-part relationship is meaningful." - Kurt Koffka, 1935: Principles of Gestalt Psychology
(And like quilters we cunningly craft the collages of our life: friends, recipes, conversations, art, poetry.)
Selections from The Courtship of the Lizard Lover
(I'm often asked if I'm the Lizard Lover or if I'm the one doing the courting. I think it's rather more
interesting to consider the implications beyond that...)
Selections from Daily Bread
(From July - September, 2000, I wrote a poem a day...an experiment and an attempt to silence the
self-censor and suggest new portals of inquiry.)
Selections from Love Soup: Recipes for Lovers & Liars
(At one time in our lives, we've all of us been either a lover or a liar, loved or lied to...which all fashions
a fabric, full of rents waiting to be collected...)
Selections from New Work
Read new poems and poetry in progress - constantly changing and evolving. To be updated often.
Selections from The Petri Dish Poems
"If you don't like someone, the way he holds his SPOON will make you furious; if you do like him,
he can turn his PLATE over into your lap and you won't mind." - Irving Becker

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