An Evening of Poetry with Kathryn Nuernberger

Please join us on August 18th at 6 PM for a virtual conversation with Kathryn Nuernberger, award-winning author of three poetry collections! 

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Rue

 poems by Kathryn Nuernberger

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In this fiercely feminist ecopoetic collection, Kathryn Nuernberger reclaims love and resilience in an age of cruelty. As the speaker―an artist and intellectual―finds herself living through a rocky marriage in a conservative rural state, she maintains her sense of identity by studying the science and folklore of plants historically used for birth control. Her botanical portraits of common herbs like Queen Anne’s lace and pennyroyal are interwoven with lyric biographies of groundbreaking women ecologists whose stories have been left untold in textbooks.

With equal parts righteous fury and tender wisdom, Rue reassesses the past and recontextualizes the present to tell a story about breaking down, breaking through, and breaking into an honest, authentic expression of self.

“This collection lets you open yourself to the possibility of truth stripped bare of the cultural baggage that keeps us from speaking our minds to strangers and friends and lovers alike. Let Rue bewitch you, let it charm you, as rue strung around the neck to keep your vision sharp and deflect from plague and remedy what ails you. Let it locate what ails you, and extract it with whatever needs to be said.”―Jennifer Givhan, author of Rosa’s Einstein

One of Big Other's "Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2020"

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Kathryn Nuernberger is the author of two previous poetry collections, The End of Pink and Rag & Bone. She has also written a collection of lyric essays, Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past. Poems from Rue have appeared in 32 Poems, Cincinnati Review, Crazyhorse, Field, Gettysburg, Tin House, on Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota.

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