Community! We are so thrilled to be hosting the book launch for Dr. Jaiya John’s newest book of poetic soul medicine, Wildflowers Praying at Midnight.
This will be an warm, intimate, and heart-full book event, with readings from Dr. John, community discussion, Q&A, as well as an opportunity for signing and photos. We will have a selection of Dr. John’s other works available for purchase.
We can’t wait to host this brilliant human and have you all join us!
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Wildflowers Praying at Midnight is Jaiya John's newest collection of poetic verses, rich with stories, prayers, devotions, affirmations, incantations, soul summoning, and mystic dreaming. For longtime and new readers of Jaiya John, Wildflowers provides fresh medicine for a humanity moving through profound collective harm, reckoning, revelation, and revival. In a voice both ancestral and prophetic, each page offers a lush garden of spiritual and social blooming. Nourishing salve and balm for this moment and beyond. Pollinated and nectar-rich in John's customary Love-soaked language, this soul-stirring collection confronts all forms of oppression at their often-avoided root. Wildflowers Praying at Midnight soothes and guides your tender heart and our kindred way forward.
ABOUT DR. JAIYA JOHN:
Dr. Jaiya John was orphan-born on ancient Indigenous Anasazi and Pueblo lands in the high desert of New
Mexico, and is an internationally recognized ancestral Baba, freedom worker, medicine poet, and keynote
speaker. Jaiya is the founder of Soul Water Rising, a global rehumanizing mission to eradicate oppression. The
mission has donated thousands of Jaiya’s books in support of social healing, and offers grants to displaced and
vulnerable youth. He is the author of numerous books, including Daughter Drink This Water, We Birth Freedom
at Dawn, Fragrance After Rain, and Freedom: Medicine Words for your Brave Revolution. Jaiya writes, narrates,
and produces the podcast, I Will Read for You: The Voice and Writings of Jaiya John, and is the founder of The
Gathering, a global initiative and tour reviving traditional gathering and storytelling practices to fertilize social
healing and liberation. He is a former professor of social psychology at Howard University, and has spoken to
over a million people worldwide and audiences as large as several thousand. Jaiya holds doctorate and master’s
degrees in social psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he was a National Science
Foundation Fellow with a focus on intergroup and race relations. As an undergraduate, he attended Lewis &
Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and lived in Kathmandu, Nepal, where he studied Tibetan Holistic Medicine
through independent research with Tibetan doctors and trekked to the base camp of Mt. Everest. He is a Lewis
& Clark College Distinguished Alumni Award recipient. His Indigenous soul dreams of frybread, sweetgrass,
bamboo in the breeze, and turtle lakes whose poetry is peace.
Dr. John’s book titles include Wildflowers Praying at Midnight, We Birth Freedom at Dawn, Volumes One and
Two, Dear Artist, All These Rivers and You Chose Love, No Man Came, Fragrance After Rain, Freedom: Medicine
Words for Your Brave Revolution, Your Caring Heart: Renewal for Helping Professionals and Systems, Daughter
Drink This Water, Calm: Inspiration for a Possible Life, Sincerity of Sunlight, Fresh Peace, Legendary: A Tribute to
Those Who Honorably Serve Devalued Children, Beautiful: A Poetic Celebration of Displaced Children, Reflection
Pond: Nurturing Wholeness in Displaced Children, Clear Moon Tribe, The Day Jumoke Found His Name, Father to
Son: Ode to Black Boys, Habanero Love: A Poem of Sacred Passion, Lyric of Silence: A Poetic Telling of the Human
Soul Journey, and Black Baby White Hands: A View from the Crib.