Kate Baer, I HOPE THIS FINDS YOU WELL: Poems

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 26 March 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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New York Times bestselling author Kate Baer joins Zibby to talk about her accidental collection of erasure poetry, I Hope This Finds You Well, which takes messages she's received online and turns them into powerful verses. The two discuss their shared experiences as mothers of four, as well as some of the specific emotions and traumas that that entails. Kate also tells Zibby about how this book came as a surprise, when she realized she was a poet, and what it's like to have some of her writing read back to her.

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0:41.3	Kate Bear is the author of I Hope This Finds You Well, Poems. Her first book, What Kind of Woman,
0:46.8	was a number one New York Times instant bestseller and featured in publications such as Harper's Bazaar,
0:51.5	Vogue.com, and the Chicago Review. She is based on the East Coast and is an author and poet. Her work has also been published in Rompur, Lit Hub, and The New York Times. Welcome, Kate. Thanks so much for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss. I hope this finds you well, poems. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me. So, Kate, you are the number one New York Times
1:12.5	best-selling author of what kind of woman. And then you followed it up with something, even better,
1:17.5	perhaps, which is this very unique take on how to read, how to pull poetry out of sometimes the
1:25.1	most distasteful prose that there could be and sometimes just regular
1:28.8	prose, but you have this gift of making art out of words, really. I mean, I guess that's what
1:36.5	poetry comes down to. Tell listeners a little bit about how this started and this whole, like,
1:43.4	social media comment, just explain it better than me
1:46.7	because I'm I'm not doing a good job. Oh sure, no problem. Also, your bookshelf behind you is so
1:52.5	beautiful. I know it's like a divisive topic on the internet about bookshelves and if she should
1:58.4	arrange them by color, but I do that. I love it. I think it
2:02.1	looks really nice. Thank you. Well, I hate to be divisive in any way, but I thought it was
2:07.9	it looks really nice. Yeah, so I hope this finds you well. It's kind of a surprise book for me. I
2:14.8	wrote what kind of woman and then signed a book deal for another collection of
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