Keetje Kuipers and Sarah Green

Prizewinning Poetry of Resilience

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Love: it’s famously complicated, but fortunately that’s part of the purview of contemporary poetry. Join us as Keetje Kuipers (Lonely Women Make Good Lovers) and Sarah Green (The Deletions) read from their prizewinning new collections. From staying in a marriage to reckoning with divorce, from mothering to daughtering, from Googling exes to being agog at Tinder bios, and always with one eye on the struggling climate that surrounds all bodies, these poems discover and reveal the ways we come to know ourselves. 

About the Authors

Keetje Kuipers is the author of Beautiful in the Mouth (2010), The Keys to the Jail (2014), and All Its Charms (2019); her newest, Lonely Women Make Good Lovers, won the Isabella Gardner Award. Her poetry and prose have appeared in The New York Times, American Poetry Review, Yale Review, Poetry, and over a hundred other magazines. Kuipers is currently the Editor of Poetry Northwest, teaches at universities and conferences around the world, and resides in Missoula, MT.  Visit her at keetjekuipers.com.

Sarah Green is the author of the previous collection Earth Science and the editor of Welcome to the Neighborhood: An Anthology of American Coexistence; her new book The Deletions was the 2023 Akron Poetry Prize Editor’s Choice. A two-time Pushcart Prize winner whose work has appeared in Ploughshares, Paris Review, Copper Nickel, Pleiades, and elsewhere, she is an Associate Professor of English at St. Cloud State University.