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Kate Hanson Foster’s world is a beautiful barn, a frightening mind, and a shimmering street. A timeless America. — Kristin Hersh American singer-songwriter and author of Seeing Sideways: A Memoir of Music and Motherhood Through poems of motherhood, mortality, loss and faith, Kate Hanson Foster’s collection Crow Funeral posits what it means to not only make a secure home for your children, but to become the literal dwelling place. From gestation through birth and the accrual of days spent mothering, Hanson Foster circles the challenges and hard truths all mothers must face. Hanson Foster’s unflinching examination of post-partum depression and anxiety is tempered with love letters to her children: “I became a mom / only once, you know. // You are the bike / I learned to ride.” She writes stark lyrics for home, her complicated relationship with Catholicism, her husband as father and lover, and most powerfully, her own body. Hanson Foster not only honors her body’s capability to bear and sustain children and nurture a family, but sings praises to its sensuality. Crow Funeral depicts the unique intimacy between a mother and her children, an intimacy which sometimes blurs the line between “me” and “we,” that which “God doesn’t / know a thing about,” fraught with overwhelming love and shot through with ferocity. — Sarah Sousa Author of Hex and See the Wolf In Crow Funeral, drama and desire build line by line and poem by poem. The work here is intensely personal. The narrative and its themes concern specific human beings, yet they maintain a universal posture that calls all of us closer to our humanity. Kate Hanson Foster is a poet of uncommon wit, charm, candor, and clarity. 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Miller was born and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts. He is the author of Tender the River (Texas Review Press), The Wounded for the Water (Salmon Poetry) , Club Icarus (University of North Texas Press), selected by Major Jackson as the 2012 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize winner, and Cameo Diner: Poems (Loom). He has published work previously in Slate, Harvard Review, Notre Dame Review, Southwest Review, Southeast Review, Florida Review, Third Coast, The Rumpus, Poetry Daily, and other journals. He teaches English and coaches football at Phillips Exeter Academy where he also co-directs the Writers’ Workshop at Exeter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/2bb6da39-70d6-4f4e-832c-eb17ebe1c04b/Crow+Funeral+Promo.png Events - Book Launch Party for Crow Funeral - Kate Hanson Foster is the author of Mid Drift, a finalist for the Massachusetts Center for the Book Award. Her writing has appeared in Birmingham Poetry Review, Comstock Review, Harpur Palate, Poet Lore, Salamander, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. A recipient of the NEA Parent Fellowship through the Vermont Studio Center, she lives and writes in Groton, Massachusetts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/b897c8e7-cee8-48c8-864d-c72eaec3943e/crowsineden_frontcover+%281%29.jpg Events - Book Launch Party for Crow Funeral - Award-winning poet, playwright and songwriter, Todd Hearon is the author of three collections of poems—Strange Land (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010), No Other Gods (Salmon Poetry, 2015) and Crows in Eden (Salmon, 2022)—a novella, DO GEESE SEE GOD (Neutral Zones Press, 2021), and the studio album, Border Radio, which was listed as “Best Music of the Seacoast” in 2021. His poems, essays and plays have appeared widely in this country and abroad. He is the recipient of a PEN/New England “Discovery” Award, the Friends of Literature Prize (Poetry magazine and the Poetry Foundation), the Rumi Prize in Poetry (Arts & Letters), and the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize (Sarah Lawrence College). Born in Texas and raised in North Carolina, he lives in Exeter, New Hampshire, and teaches at Phillips Exeter Academy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/b0cae87b-1e57-43a2-aa6b-516e263814dd/WorldlyThings_300dpi_RGB.jpg Events - Book Launch Party for Crow Funeral - Michael Kleber-Diggs (KLEE-burr digs) (he / him / his) is a poet, essayist, literary critic, and arts educator. His debut poetry collection, Worldly Things (Milkweed Editions 2021), won the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, the 2022 Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award in Poetry, and is a finalist for the 2022 Minnesota Book Award. His poems and essays appear in numerous journals and anthologies. Michael is married to Karen Kleber-Diggs, a tropical horticulturist and orchid specialist. Karen and Michael have a daughter who is pursuing a BFA in Dance Performance at SUNY Purchase. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/312c081d-c758-466e-a2b8-af4a3e573dd5/spicketriverflyer.jpg Events - Book Launch Party for Crow Funeral - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.katehansonfoster.com/events/2022/5/15/spring-silo-series-poetry-reading monthly 0.5 2022-04-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/cff79d7a-5d85-4a0d-b322-a6fd3a9fe1c0/wordbarn.jpg Events - Spring Silo Series Poetry Reading - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.katehansonfoster.com/events/2022/3/25/awp-book-signing-inklette-table-248 monthly 0.5 2022-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/8c989ba4-9ed0-4e77-82f0-a8f31cd4d20d/cropped-EASTOVER-250.png Events - AWP Book Signings - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/43c90491-9baa-4fc7-a96f-7b04dd4b1903/FM23E10WUAcMXVj.jpeg Events - AWP Book Signings - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.katehansonfoster.com/events/2020/2/9/june-hoot-with-bertha-rogers-and-kate-hanson-foster monthly 0.5 2020-02-09 https://www.katehansonfoster.com/events/2020/2/9/women-amp-work-historic-amp-contemporary-takes-an-evening-of-poetry-and-theatre monthly 0.5 2020-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/1581273221681-8W2JEAPPMGXJ4RLBMM79/ww_march_286_lg.png Events - Women & Work: Historic & Contemporary Takes - An Evening of Poetry and Theatre https://www.katehansonfoster.com/events/2019/5/23/exeter-public-library-literary-series monthly 0.5 2019-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/1556113072943-MMICRW6T9V6CVVAZKFXS/Poetry+Poster+%281%29.jpg Events - Exeter Public Library Literary Series https://www.katehansonfoster.com/events/2019/1/26/readingcraft-talk-w-poets-c-veach-m-miller-k-hanson-foster monthly 0.5 2019-01-08 https://www.katehansonfoster.com/events/2018/5/17/the-second-day-of-summer-a-silo-series-evening-of-poetry monthly 0.5 2018-05-17 https://www.katehansonfoster.com/events/2018/5/17/benefit-reading-to-support-the-ymca monthly 0.5 2018-05-17 https://www.katehansonfoster.com/events/2017/8/13/the-johnmac-radio-show monthly 0.5 2017-08-09 https://www.katehansonfoster.com/events/2017/9/16/creaticity monthly 0.5 2017-07-24 https://www.katehansonfoster.com/events/2017/8/8/poet-to-poet-writer-to-writer-with-doug-holder monthly 0.5 2017-08-11 https://www.katehansonfoster.com/about daily 0.75 2025-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/9df0282e-e7a5-45de-ac02-bf7940267de0/Crow+Funeral+Promo.png Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/1497456321140-AYO8Q9GLE6TZMVPVFE6J/mid_drift.jpg Books - The poet Major Jackson had this to say about Hanson Foster's Mid Drift: "Hanson Foster dramatizes life (real people and places) in language: and thus, her brilliant poems are to my ears courageous. Most of all she is a lyrical thinker who makes thinking sensuous and alluring. Consider yourself lucky to read her poems, it is truly a distinct experience." Set in post-industrial Lowell, Massachusetts, Mid Drift contains a speaker who is seduced by the "ugliness" of the city including prostitution, alcoholism, homelessness, and infidelity. Many poems also explore themes of family, religion and spirituality, and loss of self. Poet and writer, Amy Gerstler writes of Mid Drift: "Hanson Foster captures the arresting sense of how loss scrapes away layers of one's personhood exposing a quiet resilience, maybe even a rising faith, that glimmers dimly underneath abiding grief like some kind of ore." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/d31691fd-8316-4ef1-ac87-424c9beb9f37/CrowFuneral_CoverOnly_72.png Books - Crow Funeral How do you raise children, pray, or write poems in a world with no meaning? Crow Funeral dismisses meaning as a construct concluded from a certain set of metaphysical “signs,” and instead simultaneously accepts and rejects God and meaning in search of an exactness that only language can create. Kristin Hersh, American singer-songwriter and author of Seeing Sideways: A Memoir of Music and Motherhood, said of Crow Funeral, “Kate Hanson Foster’s world is a beautiful barn, a frightening mind, and a shimmering street. 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Readers embark on a road trip where the concept of “America” becomes more than a country, a city, or spot on a map, but a place for the speaker to dramatize the state of consciousness and recognize the art of human life... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/b60685ca-2785-4f04-96ce-990ef7e3a0b9/T4DLogo.png Reviews by Kate - SINGLE POEM REVIEW: Emily Franklin “There are two words that make Emily Franklin’s poem “After Scattering Ashes in August” worth reading: “hope & errors.” Words brought together by an ampersand, binding them closer as if one could not exist without the other.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/dc42673a-7f82-40f0-9b03-a9bb500c4620/T4DLogo.png Reviews by Kate - SINGLE POEM REVIEW: Lara Dolphin For every logophile, there is the inevitable dilemma when words fail those ineffable moments that are beyond expression. But what if a tailor-made word that would perfectly suit a moment simply doesn’t exist? Lara Dolphin tackles this ‘creator’s conundrum’ in her poem, “Inventing a New Language”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/caae4d94-b2af-413a-b5d6-11a3abb6729e/35d6dd-2300-45ce-87e9-5510681ad545.jpg Reviews by Kate - Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine The indispensable bricks of nature: earth, water, air, and fire, are in perpetual harmony with one another, shaping and reshaping human experience. It is hard to imagine that a concept so deeply rooted in antiquity and Greek philosophy would not only apply to the evolution of art and individual thought, but it is also the basis of ever- changing modern machines and technology. L. S. McKee's debut poetry collection, Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine, takes this concept further while navigating larger human concepts like love, heartbreak, loss, and coming to terms with mortality in the Digital Age. BPR 51 | 2024 Spring 2024 Number 51 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/1499822206759-0306IMHV2SN6EMY7MIF3/TheBrighterHouse.jpeg Reviews by Kate - The Brighter House William Wordsworth wrote in his poem, “Ode: Intimations of Immortality and Recollections of Early Childhood” that we are but “trailing clouds of glory…” and boldly declared, “Heaven lies about us in our infancy!” Wordsworth believed that children are wise and celestial, and as we grow we veer further and further from our divine selves. In her collection, The Brighter House, Kim Garcia suggests the opposite—that we are not de-spiritualized with age, and instead describes a personal transition from uneasy earthly child to heavenly poet. “Who can say what is a blessing?” says the speaker in the poem, “In the beginning was all the after.” “I am blessed with curses.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/6efe51e8-28bd-45f6-b40b-47b3389edc28/MarthaOldBayThumbnail.png Reviews by Kate - SINGLE POEM REVIEW: MARTHA SILANO Who doesn’t love the comedy of when autocorrect goes rogue? Don’t we all delight in a good pun? Humans collectively use puns all the time to lift us out of the practical realm and into a realm of humor and abstraction. Creative metaphoric word transformations help us escape from literal directness to a more mysterious space of double meanings and metaphysical thought. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/1505152798072-IKHUJBB07Z8Z3T5L0REL/iron+moon.jpg Reviews by Kate - Iron Moon:An Anthology of Chinese Worker Poetry ...The translations by Eleanor Goodman are an impeccable achievement of negotiating two linguistic landscapes. Multiple layers of artistry are at play here, integrating the raw spirit of the original poems while also strategically fitting language into larger aesthetic dimensions. This collection reminds us of the many human complexities of industrial life, and the exceptional literary value in working class poetry. This book should be a staple in every poet’s respected collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/ac343423-221f-44ac-a81f-f3d854351807/ISawaPictureofMyLegs%2B%283%29.png Reviews by Kate - SINGLE POEM REVIEW: STACY BOE MILLER Stacy Boe Miller’s poem, “I Saw a Picture of My Legs” not only potentially uncorks women’s feelings about their legs, but begins with a self-asserting bang: “They were holding up a building.” A line that is casually bold and unapologetically confident. You see, I was once told as a kid that I had legs like “tree trunks,” and it didn’t make me feel like I could carry a building so much as it made me more of a long skirt and pants girl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/1627669064397-VPJQRWM11QRN17ICNUH2/that+was+now.jpg Reviews by Kate - That Was Now, This Is Then “We are obsessed with ourselves,” wrote theoretical physicist, Carlo Rovelli in his book, Reality Is Not What It Seems. “We study our history, our psychology, our gods. Much of our knowledge revolves around ourselves as if it were the most important thing in the universe.” Rovelli thinks physics can teach us better, and in Vijay Seshadri’s new collection That was Now, This Is Then (Graywolf Press, 2020), the poet, like the physicist, toils over language in order to relay the unsayable realities that go beyond the basic human experience. 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Miller’s latest collection, The Wounded for the Water (Salmon Poetry, 2018) opens with a preface poem that reads like a lonely sea shanty, a solitary voice singing: “Now to chart a way / of skinning waves … Now to slice beneath the bloom / of blue … Now to be sewn in foam / and still to breathe … Now to stitch across / all my definitions of drown.” The poem, like the book, renders masculinity visible in a setting of many waters—and with the collection’s refrain: What does it mean to drown? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/1559309554572-YBWWT88OHFZOOG8CHUB7/seethewolfcover.png Reviews by Kate - See The Wolf Sarah Sousa’s See the Wolf (CavanKerry, 2018) is a collection of familiar cautionary tales around the metonymic “Big Bad Wolf.” The poems achingly read like a cold admission of female obedience—a more honest and accurate portrayal of a woman who smiles politely from scar to scar, pays attention to social niceties, and always cautiously takes the direct path home. The wolf lurks in the multiplicity of female experience…. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/7add8726-17cb-4856-94a7-2899b0e24e63/Copy%2Bof%2BTHUMBNAIL%2B%282%29.png Reviews by Kate - SINGLE POEM REVIEW: TONY GLOEGGLER I can’t say I miss those “feel-good” poetry workshop days—poets gathered in roundtable formation offering polite, surface-level feedback on one another’s poems, careful not to spark conflict or jeopardize the sanctity of the “Safe Space”. Tony Gloeggler’s poem, “Workshop” feels no different, except from a teacher’s perspective https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/1abdf5aa-20cf-41b0-9a52-75f7562e6806/Copy%2Bof%2BCopy%2Bof%2BIn%2Bthe%2BDark%2BRoom%2Bof%2BToo%2BLittle%2BTime%2Bfor%2BL.%2Band%2BJ.%2B%281%29.png Reviews by Kate - SINGLE POEM REVIEW: Meghan McClure “Like poems, love doesn’t transcend life, but lives in our bodies on earth. Love is often in the microscopic details of the anti-occasion” On Meghan McClure’s poem, “In the Dark Room of Too Little Time” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/0750b206-25fd-4fca-9f35-93c18c795b42/DERELICT%2BTHUMBNAIL%2B%281%29.png.webp Reviews by Kate - SINGLE POEM REVIEW: RONNIE K. STEPHENS As summer ends, I realize most of it didn’t go as planned. A stack of books remains unread, I’m losing interest in saving my failed vegetable garden, and if I’m honest, most of my ambitions and projects add up like a dusty “To Don’t” list. Lately, I’ve been thinking less about what didn’t get done, and more about what it feels like to carry that empty weight. That emotional shift from frantic disappointment to a more resigned kind of stillness is something I see in Ronnie K. Stephens’ poem, “Derelict.” https://www.katehansonfoster.com/essays daily 0.75 2020-06-17 https://www.katehansonfoster.com/new-page daily 0.75 2025-02-05 https://www.katehansonfoster.com/home daily 1.0 2025-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/01f4ccf5-9799-49dd-a37a-f1a8cc90a8a7/T4DLogo.png Kate Hanson Foster - Table For Deuce Table for Deuce (T4D) is the brainchild of poets Kate Hanson Foster and Michael Schmeltzer It began as a simple poetry podcast: they reviewed poems, discussed the literary community, and mocked bags of dirt. But much like the Little Mermaid, THEY WANTED MORE. Review-centered & humor-forward, T4D Iis not only evolving as a podcast, but aims to establish itself as a publishing platform for poetry and creative reviews alike. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/eab96798-5da8-4cda-bb80-f76ce25318f4/433262505_10232164449032317_1529490336750934997_n.jpg Kate Hanson Foster - Kate Hanson Foster's collection of poems, Crow Funeral was published in March 2022 by EastOver Press. She is also the author of Mid Drift, a finalist for the Massachusetts Center for the Book Award. Her writing has appeared in Birmingham Poetry Review, Comstock Review, Harper Palate, Poet Lore, Salamander, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is the co-host of the poetry podcast Table for Deuce, and co-editor of The Seat along with poet Michael Schmeltzer. A recipient of the NEA Parent Fellowship through the Vermont Studio Center, she lives and writes in Groton, Massachusetts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/f838b090-fe40-4ac2-9ab8-94940dd91792/Kate+Hanson+Foster+-+Crow+Funeral+OneSheet.jpg Kate Hanson Foster - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/dc0f5eae-5a30-423e-8017-5a2b8655827b/Screenshot+2025-02-05+at+11.27.44%E2%80%AFAM.png Kate Hanson Foster - The Seat A place for poems and honest, thoughtful, dynamic reviews. https://www.katehansonfoster.com/all-styles daily 0.75 2025-05-09 https://www.katehansonfoster.com/shop daily 0.75 2022-02-26 https://www.katehansonfoster.com/shop/framed-limited-edition-broadside-for-crow-funeral monthly 0.5 2022-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/1652712738100-7J8ZABSELU4QBNT2MRVR/cf_broadside_web_framed.png Shop - Framed Limited Edition Broadside for Crow Funeral https://www.katehansonfoster.com/shop/limited-edition-broadside-for-crow-funeral monthly 0.5 2022-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/1652707501288-637B83H3AG579BCGU7IY/cf_broadside_600.png Shop - Limited Edition Broadside for Crow Funeral https://www.katehansonfoster.com/shop/middrift monthly 0.5 2022-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/1645905137520-YOQ0MKMVJMQIZOUQO79J/mid_drift.jpeg Shop - Mid Drift https://www.katehansonfoster.com/shop/crowfuneral monthly 0.5 2022-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594152834402431cd2e75b27/1645904467445-0ZYXQGWGLAVY0Y1XJJXQ/CrowFuneral_CoverOnly_72.png Shop - Crow Funeral