Gather Your Chi

Susan Marie Powers is a life-long educator who has enjoyed working with an enormous variety of students including gifted children, university students, international students, and residents of a drug rehabilitation facility. She lived in several places in the United States before settling deep in the beautiful woods of Northeast Connecticut with her husband.
Due to her interest in both literature and psychology, Powers attained graduate degrees in English literature and clinical psychology. No matter where she was living or whom she was teaching, she continued to write essays, stories, and poetry. Her first book of poetry, Break the Spell, was published by New London Librarium press in 2010. You will find her poetry in Tiferet, Sixfold Magazine, and the Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal. Her poetry also appears in the 2024 anthology Personal Freedom and the 2025 collection Lost Love (Orenaug Mountain Publishing).

In February of 2024, Powers was awarded a 10-day residency by The Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas to work on her eco-poetry collection. In November of 2025, Powers returned to WCDH where an 11-day-scholarship resulted in the completion of Gather Your Chi. A great debt is owed to WCDH for supporting artists in their creative endeavors.

Currently, Susan Marie Powers is the Inaugural Poet Laureate for the town of Scotland, Connecticut. She conducts workshops for all ages, hosts open mics, and continues to marvel at the beauty of the natural world.