Lonely Women Make Good Lovers

The poet will be joined in conversation with BOA Editions Executive Director Peter Conners.

The daring poems in Lonely Women Make Good Lovers are bold with the embodied, earthy, and startlingly sensual. These unforgettable love poems—queer, complicated, and almost always compromised—engage a poetics of humility, leaning into the painful tendernesses of unbridgeable distance. Readers will discover intimate poems of marriage colliding with the fetishization of freedom and the terror of desire.

Keetje Kuipers is the author of four books of poetry, all from BOA Editions, including Beautiful in the Mouth (2010), winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Her poems, essays, and short stories have been published widely, including in Best American Poetry, Narrative, American Poetry Review, Orion, Prairie Schooner, The Writer’s Almanac, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series. She is a faculty member at Seattle’s Hugo House and Senior Editor at Poetry Northwest. For more information, visit www.keetjekuipers.com.

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