The first book in the Women & Words series, Listening to Stones brings together the voices of two significant poets. They share many qualities yet are opposite in other ways. One sleeps with dogs, the other with cats. One is married, one is not. Both are mothers. One lives in town, the other in the country but they share a love for and deep understanding of the natural world. Both have faced loss and looked it right in the eye, seeking understanding through the poet's method of putting pen to paper. They both live, observe and create in diverse ways but you will find their work weaves and flows between one artist's eye and the other's in a remarkable and deeply satisfying pattern, making whole cloth that wraps the reader in the comfort of the familiar and the joy of the unexpected.