Traci Brimhall: Intimacy and the Everyday
4/21/20268 min
April is National Poetry Month in the U.S., so we are featuring some of our favorite poets who write about our feathered friends. Traci Brimhall is an associate professor of poetry at Kansas State University. Her first published collection, from 2013, is called Rookery and features many poems about birds. But Brimhall didn't grow up birding — her interest came later in life.
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Mark Bramhill· Host0:32
[music] April is National Poetry Month in the U.S., and to celebrate, we're featuring contemporary poets who write about our feathered friends. Tracy Brimhall is a Professor of Poetry at Kansas State University. Her first published collection is called Rookery, and naturally, it features a number of poems about birds. But Brimhall didn't grow up birding. Her interest came later in life.
Tracy Brimhall· Guest1:00
I did graduate school in New York City and then received a fellowship in Madison, Wisconsin, um, right after I graduated. And I packed up my U-Haul and drove out of New York City with all of my belongings, and the mountains in Pennsylvania flattened out into Ohio, um, and all of a sudden there was, like, a vulture eating a deer at the side of the road, and I saw red-winged blackbirds, and I started to see all these things, and I was like, "Oh my gosh, they're