Did you hear? I’m turning forty right before my debut poetry book releases! So skip the cake—give me forty book clubs instead. Round up your circle of pals and join women around the world reading This Side of the Sky. I’ll give you everything you need.
I asked for forty book clubs instead of cake, and you actually did it. Thank you for gathering your people around these poems.
Annnnd there’s still room at the table. The count keeps climbing, and every club that joins gets the full Book Club Kit.
These poems were written as I worked alone on a wood kitchen table in small-town Iowa, but they were meant to be read by women around the world. Because I wrote them for me, but I wrote them for you too. It’s that sacredly strange way that poetry works—it relates total strangers with wildly different backgrounds all together into the same feeling at the same time. So when your book club picks up This Side of the Sky, know that you pull up a chair at a table that stretches around the world. Gather your circle, and I’ll send you everything you need. I hope you have the best conversations around this book. And as always, keep an eye on the sky with me, will you?
Remember, today anything can happen.
Register your circle and I’ll send your Book Club Kit—a discussion guide made just for these poems, plus a Spotify playlist. Inside the guide:
Everything you need to host a beautiful night—you just bring the people.
Gather your circle and I’ll send the whole kit—discussion guide, playlist, and everything else you need to host.
Sign up your book club → Takes two minutes · we’ll send everything you need to host