Like letters from a cherished friend, No‰l Hanlon's poems are intimate and generous, unconcealing, deeply observant of loss, of family, of love. Her connection to the natural world runs deep.-Molly Gloss. Born in 1956, No‰l Hanlon farms on thirty acres in the Willamette Valley, Oregon, with her husband. No‰l is a fourth generation Irish-American, and travels often to the West of Ireland for a farmer's vacation. Her poetry has been published in both Ireland and the United States. No‰l's first collection of poems, Blue Abundance, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2010.