I received a copy of PERIGEE in the mail today. A gift from the poet Diane Kerr.
I had the honor of capturing her author photo which now graces the back cover of her just published poetry book.
Thank you Diane and congratulations on winning the Brittingham Prize in Poetry and having your book published at the University of Wisconsin Press.
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“Diane Kerr mentors poets through the Madwomen in the Attic Creative Writing Program at Carlow University and is the author of the collection, Butterfly. Her work has appeared in the Alaska Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review, and Pearl, among others. She holds an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Kerr’s forthcoming Perigee follows a speaker’s emotional reckoning with a traumatic secret she felt pressured to keep during her girlhood. In varied lyric narratives, these poems reinforce that shock and suffering have no statute of limitations.”
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Perigee.
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the point in the orbit of the moon or a satellite at which it is nearest to the earth.
and today, Oct 31, we have a BLUE Moon – second FULL MOON of October!
Congratulations to Diane for Perigee… and her prize!!! And to you, Ruth, for
the vibrant photo!!!! XOXO
Congratulations , what an amazing accomplishment.
Congratulations to you too, Ruth E, for capturing the author’s photo!
A great artist photo. Complimentary but also “real”; a difficult balance to strike, and you did so beautifully.
She is a lovely person and I think it shows in her portrait