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A Breathing of Leaves

A Breathing of Leaves

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A Breathing of Leaves
A Portfolio of Images and Poems by Elizabeth Crawford and Richard Lewis

Touchstone Center Publications, 2023

Comprised of 6 Images and 6 Poems, and accompanied by an original video of all images and their poems, A Breathing of Leaves, is a unique publication expressing, not only the marvel that constitutes the many worlds of leaves, but, […]

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What If … A Poem of Our Imagining

What If … A Poem of Our Imagining

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What If … A Poem of Our Imagining
Written by Richard Lewis, Illustrated by Gigi Alvaré

Touchstone Center Publications, 2019

What If … A Poem of Our Imagining was originally written by Richard Lewis, as an invitation for children, in a variety of classroom settings, to imagine themselves becoming qualities and aspects of the natural world; and […]

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Enchantments of the Earth

Enchantments of the Earth

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Enchantments of the Earth
By Richard Lewis and Carol Grocki Lewis

Touchstone Center Publications, 2016

Based on a poem by Richard Lewis, and accompanying ceramic plates, vessels and freestanding objects by Carol Grocki Lewis,Enchantments of the Earth was a site-specific installation of The Touchstone Center in the garden at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum. As the plants and […]

To See

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To See: A Photographic Essay Based on the Writings of Thoreau
Photographs by Helen Buttfield / Edited by Richard Lewis

Touchstone Center Publications, 2014

As we enter a new century of dramatic changes in our ways of seeing and perceiving, the publication of To See offers an opportunity for readers to revisit the deeply poetic and profound […]

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Play, Said the Earth to Air

Play, Said the Earth to Air

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Play, Said the Earth to Air
By Richard Lewis

Reimagined and designed by Heidi Neilson – based on the original stage set by Gigi Alvaré

Touchstone Center Publications, 2013

Watching leaves scatter with the wind, or water spill over rocks—you can begin to feel the exuberant and subtle playing that is nature. In his poem, Play, Said the […]

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We Are Rivers

We Are Rivers

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We Are Rivers
By Richard Lewis, Illustrated by Kathy Creutzburg
Touchstone Center Publications, 2011

What are our thoughts? How do they begin, and where do they go? In what ways can we describe them? In this book by Richard Lewis, illustrated by Kathy Creutzburg, poet and artist come together to bring a new and lyrical perspective on […]

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A Tree Lives

A Tree Lives

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A Tree Lives
By Richard Lewis
Illustrated by Noah Baen
Touchstone Center Publications, 2005

Based on a poem by Richard Lewis, illustrated by Noah Baen, A Tree Lives was originally written for a group of children at the East Village Community School in New York City as a way to explore the unique knowing lodged deep inside a […]

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Living by Wonder

Living by Wonder

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Living By Wonder: The Imaginative Life of Childhood
By Richard Lewis
Parabola Books / Touchstone Center Publications, 1998

In this group of twenty essays, spanning over two decades of work with children and adults, Richard Lewis looks at the life of the imagination of childhood. Exploring various facets of children’s play, art, stories, poetry and language-making each […]

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From the Sleep of Waters

From the Sleep of Waters

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From the Sleep of Waters
By Richard Lewis
Artwork by Susan Joy Share
Designed by David Freeman
Touchstone Center Publications, 2010

Some believe that Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, was born from the foam of the sea. And in this rendering of Aphrodite’s birth by poet Richard Lewis and book-artist Susan Joy Share, the dual themes of the […]

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I Catch My Moment

I Catch My Moment

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I Catch My Moment: Art and Writing By Children On the Life of Play
Compiled by Richard Lewis

In this unique collection, Richard Lewis has gathered some of the poignant and insightful ways children have viewed not only their own playing, but also the very life of play as it takes place within the natural world […]