
My short poetry collection is available through Finishing Line Press and on Amazon.
Poems from the collection:
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“From this little book’s opening poem, ‘Genesis,’ in which ‘the word insists upon itself,’ to its closing poem’s imperative, ‘Tell it like the scrape of the match before it’s burned up,’ How to Love an Introvert quietly celebrates the tidal cycles of human grief and resilient joy. Kate Kearns creates a Maine landscape of human loves–mother, husband, daughter, father, sister—a register made in iambic waves as they touch her shore.”
– Janet Sylvester, author of That Mulberry Wine, The Mark of Flesh, and Visitor at the Gate
“I look through those who look through me,” says the transparent speaker of “Window,” one of the twenty clear-eyed and lapidary lyrics in Kate Kearns’s debut chapbook, How to Love an Introvert. As a lyric poet must, Kearns thinks in images. She also feels on her pulses the subtlest insinuations between people and nature, from “the hollering sea” to “the curtain [that] moves a little with the draft.” We recognize a devotion to, and kinship with, Elizabeth Bishop in these poems, made explicit in the superb homage, “Leaving Samambaia.” But Bishop’s salutary influence undergoes an alchemical change, Kearns bringing her own brand of poignant intimacy to perceptions that are fresh, eccentric, and often beautiful. And no one can hear the expert free-verse cadences in a poem like “In the Grey” without thinking, this poet’s ear is as fine and refined as her eye.”
– Steven Cramer, author of Goodbye to the Orchard and Clangings.
Please let me know when it is available for pre-order, and congratulations again!! How good that must feel. Charmi
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Congratulations. I would like to preorder, let me know when available and how to purchase. Namaste, bonnie
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Thank you, Bonnie. It’s out for preorder from now until January. There’s a link to preorder above.
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A client just walked into my office, noticed How To Love An Introvert displayed on my desk, asked if he could take a picture of it. I said “You can have it for $15” and he bought it! Another copy SOLD to a happy customer!
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