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Kate Kearns

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Kate Kearns is the author of You Are Ruining My Loneliness (Littoral Books, 2023), and a chapbook called How to Love an Introvert (Finishing Line Press, 2015). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Appalachian Review, Common Ground Review, Sugar House Review, Maine Sunday Telegram, Maine Public Radio’s “Poems from Here,” and elsewhere. Kate was a finalist for the 2024 Charles Simic Poetry Prize and the 2024 Maine Postmark Poetry Contest. She earned her MFA from Lesley University and BA from Sarah Lawrence College.Learn more at www.katekearns.com. ...more

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A Year in the Maine Woods

by Bernd Heinrich

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Night Owl: Poems

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“You are ruining my loneliness.”
― Kate Kearns, How to Love an Introvert

tags: introvert, poetry

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“That tingle in the brain is called a word.
It bats itself against its fleshy bounds.”
― Kate Kearns, How to Love an Introvert

tags: creativity, poetry, writing

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“A piece of art, when completed, encapsulates its own reality. As its architect, the artist’s task is to craft it well enough that the reader believes in its existence and is willing to enter, explore, and engage based on the artist’s version of the truth, even if that truth is artifice.”
― Kate Kearns

tags: art, poetry

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“If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings. ”
― Elizabeth Bishop

tags: words-in-air

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“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: life

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