Kyle Potvin
Kyle Potvin’s first full length collection of poems is Loosen (Hobblebush Books, 2021). Her first 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. Her poems have been anthologized in the 2019 Hippocrates Prize Anthology (Michael Hulse and Donald Singer, editors), Except for Love: New England Poets inspired by Donald Hall (Cynthia Brackett-Vincent, editor), and The Doll Collection (Diane Lockward, editor), and have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Crab Creek Review, Tar River Poetry, Whale Road Review, The New York Times, JAMA, and others. She is an advisor to Frost Farm Poetry in Derry, New Hampshire, and served as assistant director of the New Hampshire Poetry Festival for five years. Kyle lives with her husband and two sons in Southern New Hampshire.
Author Site: kylepotvin.com
Twitter: @KPSplash
Books
Loosen (Hobblebush Books, 2021)
Chapbooks
Sound Travels on Water (Finishing Line, 2012)
Poems Online
“Wilhelmina” Rattle “The Window of Joan of Arc Talks to the Window of St. Anne,” Whale Road Review
“Fireball,” Ecotone
“No Treachery of Maggots,” Ekphrastic Review
“When the Irises Don’t Come,” SWWIM Every Day
“Mysteries of the Corn,” Crab Creek Review
“Commuter, 1993,” Unbroken Journal
Anthologies
Rumors, Secrets, and Lies (Anhinga Press, 2022) The Powow River Poets Anthology II (Able Muse Press, 2021)
Mother Mary Comes To Me: A Pop Culture Poetry Anthology (Madville Publishing, 2020)
The 2019 Hippocrates Prize Anthology (The Hippocrates Press, 2019)
Except for Love: New England Poets Inspired by Donald Hall (Encircle Publications, 2019)
Last Call: The Anthology of Beer, Wine & Spirits Poetry (World Enough Writers, 2018)
The Doll Collection (Terrapin Books, 2016)
The Cancer Poetry Project 2: More Poems by Cancer Patients and Those Who Love Them (Tasora Books, 2013)
Honors
International Hippocrates Open Prize for Poetry in Medicine, Commendation: 2019
Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award, Finalist: 2008, 2017
Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award: 2014