Author & Poet
Kyle Potvin’s debut full-length poetry collection, Loosen , is available from Hobblebush Books (Jan. 2021). Her chapbook, Sound Travels on Water (Finishing Line Press), won the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award. She is a two-time finalist for the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award and received a commendation in the 2019 International Hippocrates Open Prize for Poetry in Medicine . Her poems have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review , Crab Creek Review , Tar River Poetry , Whale Road Review , The New York Times , JAMA
"In this moving and well-crafted collection, Kyle Potvin looks at the difficult world of sadness and pain and shows us with fine imagery (“the Holsteins black and white as pages”) the beauty we often fail to see. “In some places yellow means caution/ in others courage” she writes. This is a courageous book." —Linda Pastan