by Kip Knott
New Hampshire, Mid-March
A New Englander with old farming roots, Karen Kilcup is the Elizabeth Rosenthal Excellence Professor of American Literature, Environmental & Sustainability Studies, and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at UNC Greensboro. In addition to her fourteen academic books, she has published numerous scholarly and creative works in journals and anthologies. Her poem “Feathers and Wedges” won the 2022 Julia Peterkin Prize for poetry, and her forthcoming poetry collection The Art of Restoration was awarded the 2021 Winter Goose Poetry Prize. Find out more at www.karenkilcup.org.
Kip Knott is a writer, photographer, teacher, and part-time art dealer living in Delaware, Ohio, U.S.A. His new poetry chapbook, Distress Signals, is available from tiny wren publishing. His third full-length collection of poetry, The Other Side of Who I Am, is forthcoming in 2023 from Kelsay Books. You can follow him on Instagram at @kip.knott and read and see more of his work at kipknott.com.