~ Deborah Tobola ~
About
Deborah Tobola is a poet, playwright, and co-author of a children’s book. Her work has earned four Pushcart Prize nominations, three Academy of American Poets awards, and a Children’s Choice Book Award.
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Photo by Geri-Ann Galanti
In honor of Deborah's birthday tomorrow, November 11th, a new release of 'Who's Been Lying Down In Your Heart' will be available in the very near future on Spotify, iHeart Radio, etc. Once available, the link will be posted here. Proceeds from any downloads will go to benefit a cause dear and near to Deborah's heart.
Singer-songwriter Brian Bethke and lyricist Helen Marrs originally wrote this song for the play of the same name back in 2015.
Please enjoy a sample of the song reimagined by Brian Bethke.
Thank you!
Who's Lying Down in your Heart.mp3
Pas De Deux
A meditation on terminal illness and a life well-lived, Pas de Duex is the final chapbook from poet Deborah Tobola. The book chronicles the author's reflective final years caringfor her dying mother, receiving a diagnosis of ovarian cancer,and embracing mortality with unflinchingly lucidity and levity.
From Covid to chemotherapy to family lore to taxes, Pas de Duex probes the meanings of identity, memoryand relationships in the face of encroaching death.
Now available on Amazon: Pas De Deux
A meditation on terminal illness and a life well-lived,
Pas de Duex is the final chapbook from poet Deborah Tobola.
The book chronicles the author's reflective final years caring
for her dying mother, receiving a diagnosis of ovarian cancer,
and embracing mortality with unflinchingly lucidity and levity.
From Covid to chemotherapy to family lore to taxes,
Pas de Duex probes the meanings of identity, memory
and relationships in the face of encroaching death.
Now available on Amazon: Pas De Deux
Hummingbird In Underworld:
Teaching in a Men's Prison
At the age of forty-five, Deborah Tobola returns to her birthplace, San Luis Obispo, to work in the very prison her
father worked in when he was a student at Cal Poly. But she’s
not wearing a uniform as he did; she’s there to teach creative writing and manage the prison’s arts program--a dream job.
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