Books by Joanne Lehman

Cover of the book Fountain Nook with a painting of a one-room Amish school and a fountain with an old-fashioned pump

Fountain Nook

Poems

This first full-length collection by Joanne Lehman takes us into the nooks and founts of her imagination and memory where rural family members “kept their distance and their wits” and teach her the balanced nature of life deeply lived. . . The book celebrates both loss and wonder-filled discovery in poems that can sustain us all. –Carolyn Wright

Joanne Lehman’s collection begins rooted in a distinct Mennonite landscape. . . . Then heaven slips in , hoisting its bushel basket weaved of grief and joy and Lehman tilting it full in a holy wilderness: ‘ . . . my worship is fashioned out of this breath/taken on the road between your two fields/ where everything is damp and rejoicing, waiting.’  These poems are rich, fertile, open to the world that is and the presence that was, is, and will be. –Sarah M. Wells

Order Fountain Nook from The Orchard Street Press, Orchard721@gmail.com 

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Driving in the Fog

Poems

“Joanne Lehman offers readers a journey with her collection . . . It is a ride that engages us with her love of language, the chemistry of words freshly brought together, details captured with her painter’s eye, the joy of form and line. It is a ride that ranges far but never loses its excitement with the world and words that gather it and hold it in our hearts and minds.” –John P. Kristofco.

Driving in the Fog is out of print and no longer available. Many of these poems can be found in the full-length book, Fountain Nook.

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Morning Song 

“To celebrate place, a poet must be in the right place to see. From the first poem onward, Joanne Lehman is there in the moment, lifting the wagon tongue to hitch to her father’s tractor or watching her mother chop a garter snake to death with a hoe, and then—afterwards—gathering up these glimpses of her rural Ohio world into a sensitive portrait of the complex ways of world and spirit.”
—Daniel Bourne

“These poems speak simply, and their mourning, memory, and healing are a balm for times when a little bit of quiet would do us all a world of good. This is a fine first book—as meditative, wise, and joyful as it is bound to local life on our turning earth.” –Julia Speicher Kasdorf

Morning Song is #9 in the Wick Poetry Chapbook Series Three. Published in 2005, it is available through Kent State University Press.

Cover of the novel Kairos with a barn and a woman riding a horse.

Kairos

A Novel

Social worker Angie Halstead embarks on a spiritual journey born of despair, decision, and desire. Mindful of the risks to her career and reputation, she nonetheless crosses an ethical line and becomes involved in the personal life of one of her clients. But when tragedy results, Angie is left to wonder where to go next, and whether she’s finally gone to far. 

“A delightful work of romantic fiction that tells the story of love and friendship. A beautiful tale of hope and grace. –Lynne Hinton, author of Friendship Cake

“I appreciated many things about the book: the sensitive portrayal of landscape and knowledge of farm life; the profound respect for clients; the underlying values, such as those found in a key character who has served as a conscientious objector with Mennontie Central Committee in Laos. In this well-written book, the author takes a spiritual journey with the main character. –Elaine Sommers Rich for Mennonite Weekly Review (February 5, 2007).

NOTE: This book is out of print but is for sale by the author for $5 plus postage and handling. Contact the author using the form at the bottom of this page for more information.

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Traces of Treasure

Quest for God in the Commonplace

“Through essays and poems, Lehman shares her life. In all her experiences, mundane as well as exceptional, she looks for the extraordinary, believing that God’s presence can be found in each of life’s moments.

“This book is an adept blend of the ordinary and the spiritual. Lehman writes skillfully in a manner that deflects the emphasis from her own life and directs it back into the reader’s life. This would be an excellent gift book.” –Christian Booksellers Association Marketplace (June 1999)

Winner of the 1995 Silver Angel Award from Religion in the Media.

NOTE: This book, published by Herald Press, is out of print but is for sale by the author for $5 plus postage and handling. Contact the author using the form at the bottom of this page for more information.

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