"Thank you for a truly amazing performance!"
​--Lisa Bertuzzi, audience member
Jay Leeming is a performance storyteller adept at connecting the wild river of poetry with the earth-based stories humans have carried in their voices for thousands of years, bringing these stories alive to audiences in theaters, schools, libraries and National Parks. He is the author of two books of poetry, the creator of the Crane Bag Storytelling Podcast and the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the arts. 
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What does the Wild Hag of the Woods have to say to us about the crucial marriage between what's wild and what's not? You can find out in this story I just recorded for Yosemite National Park-- it's part of the Parsons Memorial Lodge Summer Series for 2020,  I spent five summers working in Yosemite as a ranger-naturalist, and often told these stories there amid the great shoulder blades of the mountains, surrounded by lodgepole pines. 
"Jay brings magic to the classroom." --Elizabeth Stewart​, parent​
Still photos: Sara Tro Photography/saratrophoto.com
Camerawork: Greg Levins 

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