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    Becca Stevens

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    North Carolina bred, Brooklyn based singer and composer Becca Stevens has already received copious praise from the likes of The New York Times and Downbeat magazine, being named their 2017 Rising Star Female Vocalist. Drawing upon elements of pop, indie-rock, jazz, and traditional Appalachian folk, Stevens has been hailed for her unique ability to craft exquisite compositions both for her own band, and for artists who run the gamut of genre from the legendary David Crosby, to singer José James to classical pianist Timo Andres. Stevens has toured the world with her band and collaborated with the likes of: Brad Mehldau, Esperanza Spalding, Billy Childs, Ambrose Akinmusire, Jacob Collier, Vijay Iyer and many others. 

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    • Tender, humorous, and with a light touch, Huleatt’s biography of Clement also conveys the strains to which any long marriage is subject.... The interplay between Clement’s poems and the narrative of her life kept me absorbed from beginning to end.

      John Wilson, First Things Magazine

    • Each of the Clement poems is a small, beautiful gem; she uses nature metaphors so simply and so adroitly that you find yourself almost stunned into silence....I’m not sure whether I would call this a book. A better description might be “a profoundly moving experience.”

      Glynn Young, Tweetspeak Poetry

    • Huleatt’s voice is captivating as she traces the history of a compassionate life lived. This moving collection on the life of a true poet is stellar. The final poem in the collection brought me to tears.

      Sheryl Luna, poet, author of Pity the Drowned Horses

    • The genesis of The Heart's Necessities, so well written by Becca Stevens, is a complex and interesting one. The journeys of being led from one discovery to another are very profound. Jane Tyson Clement was a wonderful poet and person … I was so interested in her and her husband’s commitment to the Bruderhof and their life in faith.

      Carolyn Gelland-Frost, poet, author of Dream-Shuttle

    • A gem of a book… Poetry by an obscure dead poet, but with a twist: this poet, Jane Tyson Clement, has a huge fan in jazz/indie rock musician and singer Becca Stevens, and Plough Publishing has put the two of them together. It’s an exciting book on many levels, especially when you hear the poetry put to music.

      Independent Publisher Magazine

    • Through hard-won religious commitment, Jane Tyson Clement’s poems rose from feminine eloquence, in the manner of Edna St. Vincent Millay and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, to something closer to universal:

      ‘Too late we break the siege
      of the close-bastioned heart
      and find the city starved,
      dry to the bone, and dark.’

      Sarah Ruden

    • This beautiful homage to Jane Tyson Clement and her poetry, which will continue to resonate with readers and, through Becca Stevens’s compositions, music lovers, also celebrates the kind of artistic collaboration that spans time and opens us to our own ‘heart’s necessities.’

      Booklist

    • The poetry is brilliant, and it’s inspired Becca to write stunning music.

      David Crosby

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