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Just Published: A Kinship with Ash, by Heather Swan

Congratulations to Heather whose poem "Boy" was featured in George Bilgere's Poetry Town on October 7, 2024.

Congratulations to Heather whose book  A Kinship with Ash named one of 10 finalists for the 2022 ASLE Book Awards.

Congratulations to Heather whose poem "Bowl" was featured in Gwarlingo on Sunday, September 19, 2021.

Congratulations to Heather whose book A Kinship with Ash was long-listed for the 2020 Julie Suk Award from Jacar Press.
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Praise for A Kinship with Ash

It’s difficult to accept that shadows, too, are products of the natural world. Often we hold what’s beautiful next to what we fear. As much as we want to appeal to our better angels, cruelty hovers and haunts our hearts. In Heather Swan’s A Kinship with Ash, wisdom is hard won. Elegant, image rich, and full of birdsong, these poems question and delight. But what is poetry if not the mind’s silhouette? In the pastoral tradition we confront our reflection, and here, Swan uses nature to look inward. As if negotiating the cliff’s edge, or wading into open water, her speakers are at the mercy of currents. We are left with faith. Reading these poems is an act of surveying light.
       —Amaud Jamaul Johnson

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Heather Swan’s poems have appeared in such journals as Poet Lore, The Raleigh Review, Phoebe, Iris, Cold Mountain Review, Midwestern Gothic, Basalt, and The Hopper. Her nonfiction has appeared in such places as Aeon, Belt Magazine, Minding Nature, Edge Effects, ISLE, The Isthmus, Resilience Journal, and Catapult. Her nonfiction book, Where Honeybees Thrive: Stories from the Field, which won the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award, was published in 2018 by Penn State Press. Her chapbook, The Edge of Damage, was published by Parallel and won the Wisconsin Writers Award. She teaches writing and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This is her debut full-length collection of poetry.

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  • Home
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  • Forthcoming
    • Peter E. Murphy
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    • Redux Series
    • Poetry Books >
      • NEW—Michael Hettich
      • NEW—Kiyoko Reidy
      • NEW—Jin Cordaro
      • NEW—Annette Sisson
      • NEW—Timothy Geiger
      • NEW—Jacqueline Berger
      • NEW—Hayden Saunier
      • NEW—J.L. Conrad
      • Tom C. Hunley
      • Heather Swan
      • Saba Husain
      • Helena Mesa
      • Kathy Nelson
      • Andrea Hollander
      • The Animals of My Earth School, by Mildred Barya
      • Flatback Sally Country, by Rachel Custer
      • This Strange Garment, by Nicole Callihan
      • Paradise Is Jagged, by Ann Fisher-Wirth
      • The Mayapple Forest, by Kim Ports Parsons
      • Leave Me a Little Want, by Beverly Burch
      • Notes from the Column of Memory, by Wendy Drexler
      • The Night Divers, by Melanie McCabe
      • light waves, by Kirsten Shu-ying Chen
      • Horse Not Zebra, by Eric Nelson
      • Design, by Theresa Burns
      • House Bird, by Robb Fillman
      • Years Beyond the River, by David Axelrod
      • The Poet & The Architect, by Christine Stewart-Nunez
      • Wind Apples, by Jeff Ewing
      • The Feast Delayed, by Diane LeBlanc
      • These Few Seeds, by Meghan Sterling
      • The Curator's Notes, by Robin Rosen Chang
      • A Cartography of Home, by Hayden Saunier
      • Tell Me How You Got Here, by Emily Franklin
      • Self-Portrait with a Million Dollars, by Patricia Clark
      • Ghost Dogs, by Dion O'Reilly
      • A Kinship with Ash, by Heather Swan
      • Kissing the Long Face of the Greyhound, by Yvonne Zipter
      • Somatic, by Ann Keniston
      • The Honey of Earth, by David Graham
      • Sugar Fix, by Kory Wells
      • The Davids Inside David, by Sarah Wetzel
      • The Bones of Winter Birds, by Ann Fisher-Wirth
      • Strange What Rises, by Gary Whitehead
      • Suspension, by Paige Riehl
      • The Northway, by Lisa Bellamy
      • The Infinite Doctrine of Water, by Michael T. Young
      • Aileron, by Geraldine Connolly
      • No Such Thing As Distance, by Karen Paul Holmes
      • Leaves Surface Like Skin, by Michelle Menting
      • How to Wear This Body, by Hayden Saunier
      • Travel Notes from the River Styx, by Susanna Lang
      • Route 66 and Its Sorrows, by Carolyn Miller
      • Bluewords Greening, by Christine Stewart-Nunez
      • The Canopy, by Patricia Clark
      • Cutting Room, by Jessica de Koninck
      • The Persistence of Longing, by Lynne Knight
      • Confessions of a Captured Angel, by Neil Carpathios
    • Craft Books >
      • The Strategic Poet
      • The Practicing Poet: Writing Beyond the Basics
      • The Crafty Poet II: A Portable Workshop
      • The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop
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      • What the House Knows
      • A Constellation of Kisses
      • The Book of Donuts, edited by Jason Lee Brown and Shanie Latham
      • The Doll Collection
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