Episode 65: Abbie Kiefer (Of the Minor, a Poet’s Work Vs. Productivity, and the Poem’s Record-Keeping of Ordinary Life)

Abbie Kiefer, author of Certain Shelter (June Road Press, 2024)

Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere

Read: “A BRIEF HISTORY OF YANKEE THRIFT, YANKEE INGENUITY, AND YANKEE WORK ETHIC” in Sixth Finch

Purchase: Certain Shelter (June Road Press, 2024)

Abbie Kiefer is the author of Certain Shelter (June Road Press, 2024) and the chapbook Brief Histories (Whittle Micro-Press, 2024). Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in Copper NickelGulf CoastPleiadesPloughsharesPrairie SchoonerThe Southern Review, and other places. She lives in New Hampshire. Find her online at abbiekieferpoet.com.

Reading Recommendations:

Edwin Arlington Robinson Wikipedia

“Richard Cory” by E.A. Robinson

Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“The Truth the Dead Know” by Anne Sexton

“Ars Poetica” by Aracelis Girmay

frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss