I’m Ann Keeler Evans – Peacemaker, poet, priestess –
and you are welcome here!
A Poetic Field Book forJourneying Across the Northern US:
My Pilgrimage with the Peoples, Lands, Waters, Skies
I’m Ann Keeler Evans, Investigative Poet. Inspired by my trip to Antarctica (and subsequent book) last year, I wanted to understand more about what I encounter with the Peoples and the Lands, Skies, and Waters. This time, I’m off to explore the northernmost swath of the United States, and share what I find in a Field Book so that others can experience it as well. In June, my friend Marilyn and will travel the Northern Route across our country to encounter its Peoples, Lands, Waters, and Skies.
- To explore the viewpoints of the people we encounter.
- To examine what we as a country have lost and gained.
- To wonder what is Possible. To witness the Peace yearning to break free.
This is a pilgrimage, a field study, a friendship journey, a love letter, and a lament. And it will become a book because you helped make space for it and will help me publish and publicize it.
Will you accompany me on this journey? I would be honored if you could support me as I travel — to help me witness, listen, write, and return with stories and poems worth sharing.
I’m going to be asking questions such as
- What is the Peace of this Place?
- What disturbs its Peace? What supports it?
- Do you dream of reimagining and restoring Peace?
- What is your role in that restoration?
- What Wisdom do you have to offer?
Please join me in creating this project by enabling this trip, and support me and the arts as I search for the Peace and Beauty of our Country. Every donation makes a difference. Every contribution expands this project to be its best. Thank you.
Become a Sponsor — and Learn:
What does it cost to make art? What is the price of Peace?
Sponsor the Journey: 2 Bucks Per Mile
It’s a journey of about 5,500 miles, and every mile counts! Sponsor 1 mile for just $2.00
$20 =10 miles,
$100 = 50 miles,
$200 = 100 miles,
or any amount you can invest.
Every mile helps carry this Investigative Poet across the country, helps us sleep safely under the northern skies, supports a day of nourishment and noticing — the fuel for the Field Book.
Sponsor Sites and Side Trips
Help me enter the places where the stories live: national parks, tribal museums, cultural sites and sacred landscapes of the Northern Plains and Pacific Northwest — mountains and grasslands, towns, ferries, tide flats, and orca-watching trips that will shape the Field Book and deepen the story of land, waters, and skies. We’ll be using Native Tours and guides wherever possible.
Estimated Total: $2500.
Sponsor the Field Book’s Research
$500 Understanding what is encountered will require tools: books, music, handicrafts, even campy souvenirs to allow the Poet to Investigate the Peoples, Lands, Skies, and Waters from the road.
Estimated Total: $500.
What You’ll Receive
Everyone who contributes will be invited to:
- follow along with writings from the road
- receive glimpses of the Field Book as it forms
- join an online gathering when I return
- understand your important role as a patron of the arts.
Wait, there’s more:
Interested in Underwriting the Finished Product?
Let me know if you would like to be a partner for the final product! Full credit and acknowledgment for any investment.
Book Production
$1,500 Editing, layout, printing, cover design — the final shaping of Journeying Across the Northern US: My Pilgrimage with the Peoples, Lands, Skies, and Waters.
Sharing the Work
$1,500 Working with a marketing team to offer this to the World. This is the 250th anniversary of the establishment of the US and the decentering of the Peoples Native to this land, let’s understand how this nation is faring.
Sponsor the Multimedia Collaboration of Music and Poetry
$4,000 Ann and Andy Seal, musician and film-maker, have been exploring the intersection of music and poetry for years. Ann will be taking a nature recorder along to augment her poetic explanations of the landscapes she will have traversed. We will build a collaboration from this work. Investigation is rarely at one level. Your donation will help the world to understand how sharing the work augments a participant’s experience.
- May 12, 2026
We seem to forget how important the Elves are — and that we’re they!
Ann
I’m posting the times for the risings and settings of the Sun and Moon here for where I live (Sunbury PA, USA). This is a good thing to know about our day. Look up your times at https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/
Sunrise: 5:52 am Moonrise 3:19 am Sunset: 8:14 pm Moonset: 3:34 pm
What started out to be an adventure of two friends exploring Antarctica, turned into a spiritual sojourn that took us far beyond our wildest imaginations. I am a thealogian by training, a Peacemaker by vocation, and a Poet by expression. My friend, Faye, is a spiritual educator and a gospel/choral musician.
Faye and I and our companions on this trip were stunned by the power and majesty of this place and became committed to this still barely known continent and its pristine surrounding waters. Antarctica has no citizens; it needs ambassadors to speak to the importance of its pristine beauty and promote the Antarctic Treaty, signed by 58 countries in 1959, that is dedicated to Science and Peace.
As a thealogian, I went with questions — what is it like to visit a place with no indigenous people, no gods, no wee folk? Maybe it’s the spirit of the orca and the penguins and all the other lifeforms whose home it is, that has shaped what the continent has become.
Antarctica transformed my life; I experienced a Peace so profound that 54 poems flowed from me, and I invite to share that experience through them.
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Peace
As a Peacemaker and a Community Builder, I help people understand their gifts and strengths, while discovering the best ways for them to use them in to make Peace in the world. I have been working at being a Peacemaker throughout my ministry — and looking back, I realize that I have been working toward this for my whole life. It is a curious, confusing, and wonderfully rewarding way of life.
Peace matters. It matters enough that we are called to participate in building communities in which Peace can flourish. We are not Peaceful if we are not Peaceful in relationship, whether with Nature or Beings. Peace is so much more than a lovely concept. It is not simply an idea; it is a goal.
Throughout time, Peace has been understood far too often as either the opposite or the absence of war. That understanding severely underestimates the hope and potential of Peace. Peacemaking is an active verb that starts with a sense of wonderment about the Beauty and Abundance in which we live and leads us forward into community.
As a Peacemaker, I focus on finding the possibilities for connection and meaning, for creating rather than simply combatting. As such, I am a student of Nonviolence, which is the use of peaceful means, rather than force, to bring about political or social change. Nonviolence is a challenge to those of us raised in the Western World, but without it, without the creativity and collaboration, there can be no Peace.
We all need support in our process of building Peace and your Sacred Village(s) of Peace. As a Priestess and a Peacemaker, my calling is to be ‘in’ here for you to encounter and engage with for support and inspiration as you become a Peacemaker too.
Most Recent Peacemaker Pondering :
- One of the ways I practice Peace is by being a hospital chaplain. Often my work is supporting the patients involved in traumatic events and their families. It’s work that I was surprised to find as rewarding as I do and at which I am quite competent. If you’re going to have a job after … Continue reading "Creating Safe, Peaceful Community that Includes our Soldiers"
More Peacemaker Ponderings
Peacemaker’s Tarot
I highly recommend buying all three of Ann’s Peacemaker’s Tarot books, as I have done. Not only are they an interesting read on her creative process in developing this unique approach to the Tarot, but they also give insights into what humanity needs in our evolution to more conscious living.
Laura Rose Gatley, Spiritual Mentor
Peacemaker’s Tarot
for the 21st century
“Not your grandmother’s tarot!” ™
Tarot helps us to be more present and aware in the moment. We don’t know what will happen in Life, so it’s crucial to know where we are in our own lives. However, old symbols and metaphors no longer have meaning in a world that is longing for new and meaningful reference points.
Peacemaker’s Tarot for the 21st Century (PT21C) is not a parlor game and does not predict your future as a passive event over which you have no control. PT21C is intended to explore how you can actively create your future based on the values of Peace and nonviolence.
Peacemaker’s Tarot for the 21st Century is a powerful invitation for you to consider your strengths and the allies you will want to develop as you work toward being a force for Peace in your life and your world. The Major Arcana cards are designed to center your talents as you become the person you mean to be.
Peacemaker’s Tarot for the 21st Century helps us think about the moment with Peace and nonviolence at the center of our considerations. Read this and get curious about what comes next. Then come enjoy a reading with Ann — the Tarot Priestess is In for you.
* After purchasing your PT21C Major Arcana cards,
download your free PDF of Vol. II-C, Your Personal Journey to Wisdom
