Set in the heart of Maine, Judy Kaber’s poems build a house from close observation of the world. In this book, you’ll find much of the natural world-turtles, chickens, flowers, rocks-but also the human world with its strengths and weaknesses and its close relationship to this wild ecosphere. Filled with original language and astute detail, the poems become a way of seeing, a place of both shelter and challenge.
Kaber’s flawless ear for language invites us into a landscape of both sorrow and beauty, a place where we can honor our humanity as well as the wildness of nature and find a reliable path through our turbulent times.
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Judy Kaber’s poems have appeared in journals such as Rattle, Pleiades, december, Poet Lore, and Prairie Schooner. She won the 2023 Maine Poetry Contest, the 2024 Maine Literary Short Works Poetry Award, and the 2024 Naugatuck River Review Narrative Poetry Contest. Her first full length poetry collection, Landscape With Sky, Rocks, Nails, was published in 2026 from Fernwood Press. Judy is a past poet laureate of Belfast, Maine (2021-2023).
