by Kathleen Balma (Author)
FROM YOUR HOSTESS AT THE T&;A MUSEUM is a stunning series of imaginative leaps and encounters, as playful as it is momentous. Not only poetry lovers, but enthusiasts of art history, fantasy fiction, sci-fi, westerns, travel narratives, nature documentaries, and historical fiction will delight in its genre-bending adventures and inventions. How did Abraham Lincoln build the log cabin he was born in? What happens at an invisible gun show? Are aliens really controlling a Chicago musician's ears? Kathleen Balma crafts answers to these and other metaphysical questions with a language all her own. Known for her deadpan humor and lack of pretense, Balma has given us a first book that is both light to carry and hard to put down.
Author Biography
Kathleen Balma's poems have appeared in Best New Poets, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, the Montreal International Poetry Prize Anthology, and many other publications. She works as a programming and services librarian at New Orleans Public Library, where she is the founder and leader of Virtual Creative Writing Workshop--a free, intergenerational writing group for residents of Orleans Parish. FROM YOUR HOSTESS AT THE T&A MUSEUM (Eyewear Publishing, 2022) is her debut collection.