Sally Rosen Kindred is the author of two poetry books from Mayapple Press, Book of Asters and No Eden, and the chapbook Darling Hands, Darling Tongue from Hyacinth Girl Press. She holds an MFA from the University of Maryland and has received two Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Blackbird, Quarterly West, The Adroit Journal, and Pleiades. Learn more at sallyrosenkindred.com.
If you open your hands to hold Homebodies, a chapbook of poems by Sarah J. Sloat, you find much about the book itself that makes the act feel personal, private.…