Get your copy of Atena’s new collection, Incantations for Rest: Poems, Meditations & Other Magic!

Atena’s first solo collection of poems is an exploration of how faith, liberation, and meditation wind around and through each other, and how rest makes room for it all.

I’ve been working out to cope with things (and to prevent prolapse of any internal organs). I feel pretty good - it’s nice to have stamina. 💪🏿
I’ve been working out to cope with things (and to prevent prolapse of any internal organs). I feel pretty good - it’s nice to have stamina. 💪🏿
Good morning! Sissy Dog and I are all smiles after watching videos of students doing direct action during graduation ceremonies! This movement auntie is SO proud! 😘
Good morning! Sissy Dog and I are all smiles after watching videos of students doing direct action during graduation ceremonies! This movement auntie is SO proud! 😘
Feeling cute with cute gifts from my mama today!
Feeling cute with cute gifts from my mama today!
So glad I went! Beautiful action and beautiful messages and beautiful plants! Thanks to all the organizer mamas and caregivers who made this happen! FREE THEM ALL!
So glad I went! Beautiful action and beautiful messages and beautiful plants! Thanks to all the organizer mamas and caregivers who made this happen! FREE THEM ALL!
I’ve been working out to cope with things (and to prevent prolapse of any internal organs). I feel pretty good - it’s nice to have stamina. 💪🏿 Good morning! Sissy Dog and I are all smiles after watching videos of students doing direct action during graduation ceremonies! This movement auntie is SO proud! 😘 Feeling cute with cute gifts from my mama today! So glad I went! Beautiful action and beautiful messages and beautiful plants! Thanks to all the organizer mamas and caregivers who made this happen! FREE THEM ALL!

Find Atena’s Work in These Books

  • Incantations for Rest: Poems, Meditations & Other Magic

    Skinner House Books

    Incantations for Rest is an invitation to slow down and explore every kind of rest, providing sacred space for those exhausted by the demands of a racist, ableist society. The 2022 volume of the inSpirit Series, this stunning collection of poems, meditations, and magic by poet-activist Atena O. Danner is an examination of spiritual spaces, a love letter to Black well-being, and medicine for BIPOC people.

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  • Shelter in this Place: Meditations on 2020, Edited by Meg Riley

    Skinner House Books

    You can read my poem ‘Solstice: A Litany for the Long Darkness’ in this collection of poems and meditations. Shelter in This Place is the 2020 inSpirit book; inSpirit publishes a collection of poems and meditations annually.

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  • Hip Circle presents Struggle, Elevate & Celebrate: An Anthology of Women's Voices

    Hip Circle Studio (out of print)

    This powerful anthology brings together women writers from Arizona, Oregon, Rhode Island, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Illinois, Washington, Iowa, Virginia, Michigan, and the UK. It features poems, essays, and short stories, all highlighting the pain, humor, vulnerability, and strength woven throughout the experience of being a woman.

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