Now available wherever you buy books! #poetry #earthday #indie

Coming April 14, 2026. Now on pre-sale through Bookshop.org, Amazon, and your favorite indie bookstore.

Vote tomorrow!!! Minnesota friends, see who is on your ballot, here: mprnews.org/story/2025/11/02…

“Fierce Delight: Poems of Early Motherhood” is out now. Poetry collection “This Ground Beneath Our Feet,” about finding common ground, coming April 2026.

Unhealthy air quality for us today. My heart aches for the forests burning in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and all the lives and homes affected. Here’s a story from the BBC: bbc.com/news/articles/cz9yv2…

My NPR author debut! I could not have asked for lovelier. Listen here. #FierceDelight npr.org/2025/05/31/nx-s1-538…

It’s official: my book interview will air on NPR this afternoon during All Things Considered 5 EST/4 Central. Right now it’s scheduled in the last 15 minutes of the show. The exact timing might shift. I’m so curious to hear what from our 30 minute interview ends up in there.

This is my #FierceDelight. Happy Mother’s Day.

My new book “Fierce Delight: Poems of Early Motherhood” opens with a quote from a Grace Paley poem that my mom once gave me: “I wanted to explain tiredness is Expected it is even appropriate At the end of the day.” We do a lot. My hope for this #MothersDay is a nap. #poetry

Daily dose of beauty! More gorgeous tulips from the MN Arboretum. #NatureTherapy

Daily dose of beauty.

Big day for the Midwest

What a lovely reading last night. Thank you, everyone, who came to hear my “Fierce Delight” and who found themselves remembering their own longest shortest days of early motherhood. #poetry

CHARLIE, IN-BETWEEN When Charlie leaves her small island to live with her aunt on the mainland & start 7th grade, she’s sure those stomachaches are homesickness. Right? -novel in verse -❤️ in 2 places -chronic illness -lacrosse IVALEZ EXPLAINS IT ALL x GUTS #QuestPit #MG #Q

At the ANY ANIMAL CAFÉ, woolly mammoths chomp grass & saber tooth cats usually don’t eat other customers. Then a stranger walks in on 2 legs, threatening the seating arrangement. They’d better find room at the table before a colossal food fight starts! #QuestPit #Q #PB #HA #STEM

I DON’T DARE WRITE THIS Set on America’s 100th birthday, 12-year-old Tess travels to St Paul to find her brother but is caught at the crossroads between family loyalty and the law. - Pinkertons - Train-robbing outlaws - code-breaking - Grimm fairytales #questpit #Q #MG

#QuestPit #MG #amquerying CHARLIE, IN-BETWEEN When Charlie moves from her small island to live with her aunt on the mainland to start 7th grade, she’s sure those stomachaches are homesickness, right? -novel in verse -chronic illness -lacrosse IVALEZ EXPLAINS IT ALL x GUTS

“Go, Dog, Go” never leaves you once you have read it a zillion times. I look outside at this spring day and I think, “a blue bird in a white tree. A red bird under the tree.” #kidlit #spring #parenting

I am so looking forward to being on Talk of Iowa tomorrow, talking about my new book, Fierce Delight. Listen in @IowaPublicRadio Here is a picture of spring springing.

Author of “Fierce Delight: Poems of Early Motherhood.” Now available wherever you buy books. Perfect for Mother’s Day!