Linda Sue Grimes

Linda Sue Grimes - Profile

The Feature Writer for Poetry earned a PhD in literature at Ball State University. In her dissertation, titled "W. B. Yeats' Transformations of Eastern Religious Concepts," she argues that Yeats actually misinterpreted many of the basic Eastern religious and philosophical concepts that he attempted to portray in some of his poems and plays. Her expertise in Eastern philosophy comes from studying the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda and practicing Kriya Yoga since 1978.

Grimes has published poems in many literary journals, including Sonoma Mandala, RATTLE: Poetry for the 21st Century, and The Bellingham Review, and three academic essays in The Explicator.

She participated in a roundtable discussion titled "Spirituality in the Workplace," which appeared in the September 2005 issue of Effective Executive, published in India. Her article, “MY SOUL IS MARCHING ON: Using Mystical Poetry to Carry the Mind to Celestial Realms,” was published in the Winter 2005 issue of Self-Realization Fellowship Magazine.

Her book of spiritual poetry, Singing in the Silence, was published in 2005 and a book of fables, Jiggery-Jee's Eden Valley Stories, in 2004.

In addition to serving as Feature Writer for Poetry here at Suite101, she also contributes articles to Alternative Spirituality and American History.

Grimes also maintains Classic Poetry: for students who hate poetry!, which offers assistance to frustrated poetry students, and she provides samples her own original poetry at Stone Gulch Literary Home.