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Kate Kearns is the author of You Are Ruining My Loneliness (Littoral Books, 2023) and How to Love an Introvert (Finishing Line Press, 2015). In her home state, Kate’s work has appeared in Maine Women Magazine, Rustica, the Maine Sunday Telegram “Deep Waters” section and Maine Public’s “Poems from Here”. Her poems have also been published in Salamander, Peregrine, Sugar House Review and elsewhere. Kate was a finalist for the Charles Simic Memorial Prize and the 2024 Maine Postmark Competition. She earned her MFA from Lesley University. Learn more at www.katekearns.com. ...more

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The Branch Will Not Break

by James Wright

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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

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The Salt House: A Summer on the Dunes of Cape Cod

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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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