The first of the reviews is in for Kissed by a Fox, from Publisher’s Weekly.

I’m thrilled to announce that Publisher’s Weekly today reviews Kissed by a Fox. I’m even more thrilled that the reviewer has a lot of good things to say about it:

a tenderly woven collection of essays

an entertaining and emotionally resonant book

But my favorite line calls out the writing itself:

the language [is] lyrical, possessing a poet’s cleverness of rhythm.

Some years ago I had a group of friends who met once a month or so to read poetry to one another—Mary Oliver or Robert Hass or Billy Collins or Jane Kenyon. For a while our anthem was Kim Addonizio’s “What Do Women Want?” We took turns reading it aloud and in our mind’s eye Read More…