Coming Soon: Black Holes and Their Feeding Habits, by Kiyoko Reidy
Black Holes and Their Feeding Habits is one of the titles included in "The Most Anticipated Debut Poetry Collections of 2025," by Skylar Miklus at Electric Literature.
Praise for Black Holes and Their Feeding Habits
In Kiyoko Reidy’s Black Holes and Their Feeding Habits, the poet illuminates worlds that are exquisite, shimmering, made tender by awe and grief. The poems breathe portals into familial care, inherited violence, intergenerational loss, and the natural landscapes within and around us. We encounter “monarch wings resplendent as church windows”; an obaasan laying flowers at a cemetery; oranges “like fist-sized fires alight / in the branches,” a bodily desire to be “borderless in the wild dark.” In the wisdom of these poems, there lives a keen recognition of the self shape-shifting towards the light. As a reader, I’m spellbound by Reidy’s lush attention to textures of care, which teach me to open myself to the world “wildly, marveling at all this abundance.”
—Carlina Duan, Alien Miss
Praise for Black Holes and Their Feeding Habits
In Kiyoko Reidy’s Black Holes and Their Feeding Habits, the poet illuminates worlds that are exquisite, shimmering, made tender by awe and grief. The poems breathe portals into familial care, inherited violence, intergenerational loss, and the natural landscapes within and around us. We encounter “monarch wings resplendent as church windows”; an obaasan laying flowers at a cemetery; oranges “like fist-sized fires alight / in the branches,” a bodily desire to be “borderless in the wild dark.” In the wisdom of these poems, there lives a keen recognition of the self shape-shifting towards the light. As a reader, I’m spellbound by Reidy’s lush attention to textures of care, which teach me to open myself to the world “wildly, marveling at all this abundance.”
—Carlina Duan, Alien Miss
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Kiyoko Reidy is a poet and nonfiction writer from East Tennessee. She received her BS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her MFA from Vanderbilt University in Nashville. She has served as the Editor-in-Chief for the Nashville Review and Poetry Editor for the Madison Review. She currently lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, where she is active in the local poetry community. Her writing has appeared in the Cincinnati Review, Palette Poetry, Frontier Poetry, Four Way Review, and elsewhere. Website Available at Terrapin Books Amazon |
