Weekend Host: MPR News. Host: Ask a Bookseller podcast, Art Hounds. Author of “Fierce Delight: Poems of Early Motherhood.” Writes MG, PB. Opinions are my own.
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31 Dec 2025
Coming April 14, 2026. Now on pre-sale through Bookshop.org, Amazon, and your favorite indie bookstore.
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3 Nov 2025
Vote tomorrow!!!
Minnesota friends, see who is on your ballot, here: mprnews.org/story/2025/11/02…
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28 Aug 2025
“Fierce Delight: Poems of Early Motherhood” is out now. Poetry collection “This Ground Beneath Our Feet,” about finding common ground, coming April 2026.
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3 Jun 2025
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…
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31 May 2025
My NPR author debut! I could not have asked for lovelier. Listen here. #FierceDelight npr.org/2025/05/31/nx-s1-538…
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31 May 2025
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.
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11 May 2025
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
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8 May 2025
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
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7 May 2025
#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
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7 May 2025
“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
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6 May 2025
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.
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6 May 2025
Author of “Fierce Delight: Poems of Early Motherhood.” Now available wherever you buy books. Perfect for Mother’s Day!
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