Cover art by Alexandra Eldridge
Released in 2018 by Porkbelly Press, Says the Forest to the Girl is a chapbook of poems that, as poet and critic Stacey Balkun writes in The Bind, "isn’t like anything you know. These poems don’t merely re-tell; they fully transform familiar tales, putting Sleeping Beauty in conversation with Little Red, giving Rapunzel a dialogue with the wolf. And by 'dialogue,' I mean she has a voice, and he, for once, is silenced."
Balkun goes on to say, "Kindred masters the lyric. Each line resonates, somehow levitating with musicality yet weighing heavy with meaning. These poems are bold, rich with imagery and such by a gorgeously peculiar voice."
Says the Forest to the Girl was listed in Poetrybay's 19 for '19: Holiday Season Poetry Chapbook Gift List, where poet Alexis Rhone Fancher called it "brilliantly original," "a feast for the eyes as well as the mind."
Poems from the chapbook appear in Goblin Fruit, Thrush Poetry Journal, and Through the Gate.
Reviews appear in:
Tinderbox Poetry Journal (by Dayna Patterson)
The Bind (by Stacey Balkun)
The Bind (by Jessica Lynn Suchon)
Poetry Matters (by Karen George)
Balkun goes on to say, "Kindred masters the lyric. Each line resonates, somehow levitating with musicality yet weighing heavy with meaning. These poems are bold, rich with imagery and such by a gorgeously peculiar voice."
Says the Forest to the Girl was listed in Poetrybay's 19 for '19: Holiday Season Poetry Chapbook Gift List, where poet Alexis Rhone Fancher called it "brilliantly original," "a feast for the eyes as well as the mind."
Poems from the chapbook appear in Goblin Fruit, Thrush Poetry Journal, and Through the Gate.
Reviews appear in:
Tinderbox Poetry Journal (by Dayna Patterson)
The Bind (by Stacey Balkun)
The Bind (by Jessica Lynn Suchon)
Poetry Matters (by Karen George)
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