All Its Charms

Senior editor at Poetry Northwest and faculty at Seattle’s Hugo House, Kuipers lives with her wife and daughter on an island in the Salish Sea, where she is at work on a novel and a memoir.

two previous poetry collections, Beautiful in the Mouth and The Keys to the Jail.

American Poetry Review, Orion, Tin House, and The Best American Poetry.

Keetje Kuipers has been a Stegner Fellow and the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident.

Hugo House and Poetry Northwest, who have made me feel so welcome in my new teaching and editing homes in Seattle. T

Chantel Acevedo and Ken Autrey, who made Alabama a place where my poems could grow for a time

Auburn University, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Gettysburg College, the Jentel Artist Residency Foundation, the Lucas Artist Residency Program at Montalvo Center for the Arts, and PLAYA.

Alabama State Council on the Arts,

which provided vital fellowships, residencies, and financial support during the crafting of this manuscript:

Special thanks, too, to Erin Malone, who was of indispensable assistance in ordering this collection, and who, along with her husband, Shawn Wong, offered the use of their quiet cottage on the coast where I was able to put this book through its paces.