"Jennifer Lighty is the real thing and has done us a great service with Piko. A modern woman working intuitively to contact mythic ground. Her language is fresh and imaginative, her intention five fathoms deep. I'm so glad she exists, and that she has turned some of her life's work into a gift that we can cradle in our hands and feel the benefit."

—Martin Shaw, author of Bardskull

“Jen Lighty is a poetry shaman. And like all shamans, she doesn’t give you the answer – she allows you to discover that the answer, the poetry, has been within you all along. You had only to wake up to hear it. She coaxes the poetry from your bones that you did not know was there. A kind and gentle soul and a brilliant poet, she guides you through the intricate awakenings, the magical dreamings, of your poetry-soul.” 

—Vernon Fowlkes, author of The Sound of Falling

“The Coracle is a modern-day ceremony. Exquisitely created to work in tandem with seemingly mundane daily existence. I am blown away by the power of transformation that results from the facilitation. The vast space of magic opens, reaching out of the stories, infusing their wisdom into the actions of my thoughts, heart and actions of waking life.

Jen is a master at her craft, a medicine woman using intuition combined with her seasoned relationships with the stories and poetic verse to extract the medicine that will support the individual process of the mentee.”

—Morgan Tass Rando  

“Thanks to Jen’s efforts, I have been granted what has up until this moment felt incomplete within my personal growth process. I have been granted a truly honorable acknowledgment of my rights of passage—moving from the mainstream adolescence into the exalted mystic. Here I stand, claiming my power and full expression of my truth. I am forever grateful to be held in Jen’s grace and integrity through this pinnacle transition aboard the Coracle. “

—Morgan Tass Rando

“In the Hawaiian language, Piko can be translated as "the very center." As a society, we understand that before we can make sense of the results of our culture, we must remember the very design of it, or its piko. Jennifer Lighty, with her provocative "Piko: A Return to Dreaming," coaxes its readers back into this center and, with masterful literation, weaves the patterns that bleed from this center to result in what we know as the human condition. Although the core concept is poetic, Lighty expresses this work in such a relatable way that anyone can position themselves as the lead character(s) whom, through the beauty of words, symbols, art, and consequence, truly affirm the core design which all results from."

—Ke'oni Hanalei, founder Pōhala Hawaiian Botanicals

"One of the highlights of my year was getting to read and respond to an early draft of this book. Friends - especially friends who work on climate change issues and/or writer friends - please consider buying this book by my brilliant friend Jennifer Lighty. There have only been a couple of times in my life where the book I was reading began to alter the events of my day-to-day life. This is one of those times. To say it's part memoir, part poetry collection, and part folklore is inadequate. The book itself is a magical portal and talisman for healing. The overarching structure revolves around Jen telling cultural stories to the earth as an act of repair and restoration, for both the land and for herself. It is deep, vast, illuminating, and beautifully written. Run and grab a copy, If you have a connection to Hawaii, it will be extra special for you."

—Leigh Medeiros, author of The 1-Minute Writer

This profound book is exceptionally raw, relevant & real for our modern day fast paced society where most of us have forgotten the ancient myths & how important they are to guide us towards a healthy future.

The depth of wisdom and storytelling in this book is staggering. She deftly weaves in tales of ancient Goddesses & Gods. The story of Inanna is my favorite, of course.

—Tara Coyote, author of Grace, Grit, and Gratitude

"She's done with the borrowed light of the moon. She's trying to see the real world beyond her own projections. Thirsty, she moves toward greater thirst. Hungry, she enters a deeper hunger. She's trying to get lost enough to find her self. And all the while she transforms her struggle into these wonderful, delicious poems. This book is a feast." 

—Li-Young Lee, author of Behind My Eyes

I love the honesty, and the humor, of how these poems live in the world. Very beautiful."

—Coleman Barks, author of The Essential Rumi

"Where the moon stands in as a surrogate lover to broken up with comes as an impossible metaphor, seeing that the moon will be ever with us, waxing and waning, long after we are dead. But then again, when it comes to grief, there is no rational state of mind, only foraging and fleeing into dislocated landscapes, flora and fauna both welcome and aline. Here in reflected lunar light, Jen Lighty enacts the soul's deepest struggles which emerge from lines pressured into being."

-—Timothy Liu, author of Let It Ride