Itinerant Songs

Terra Oliveira is the author of Itinerant Songs, and the founding editor of Recenter Press. A finalist in the 2024 Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Bamboo Ridge, The Common, Puerto del Sol, Protean Magazine, and more. ​Her poetry and illustration collection, An Old Blue Light, won the Where Are You Press Poetry Contest in 2016, and she has been awarded international residencies at The Schoolhouse at Mutianyu at the Great Wall of China, and elsewhere. Born and raised throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, she is of Azorean-Portuguese, Native Hawaiian, Chinese, and mixed Eurasian descent. Her work is an extension of her core practices and beliefs: in recovery, community, pilgrimage and retreat, and peoples' movements globally.