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The clouds in Kathleen McGookey's moving prose poems report on a world that's both familiar and uncanny-""Night and day behaved themselves""; ""Grandmother and Grandfather have already stepped back into their portraits""; ""Dark is dark/ And she is caught in its throat."" They illuminate small but crucial moments, and the indistinct things that move at the edge of our peripheral vision. They also reveal the mysteriousness just below the surface of our daily lives, and in doing so transform what we might mistake for the ordinary into art. You'll never see your own life in quite the same way again. -Sharon Bryan

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Reading Kathleen McGookey's latest collection, Paper Sky, reminds me why I love prose poetry. Sublime, profound, and deeply felt, each poem is like a crystal gem. It's as if she has taken her everyday life and examined it, detail by detail, as if it were a portal to another realm. Like William Stafford, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Killarney Clary, she is a poet who sees the mystery in the ordinary, whose every poem shimmers with light. -Nin Andrews, author of Son of a Bird The clouds in Kathleen McGookey's moving prose poems report on a world that's both familiar and uncanny-""Night and day behaved themselves""; ""Grandmother and Grandfather have already stepped back into their portraits""; ""Dark is dark/ And she is caught in its throat."" They illuminate small but crucial moments, and the indistinct things that move at the edge of our peripheral vision. They also reveal the mysteriousness just below the surface of our daily lives, and in doing so transform what we might mistake for the ordinary into art. You'll never see your own life in quite the same way again. -Sharon Bryan, author of Sharp Stars Brilliant, illuminating, powerful: Paper Sky is a journey into the state of the unexpected, with lovely (sometimes haunting) surprises along the way. McGookey does it again. Read this. It's yet another marvel by one of the best prose poets of our time. -Kim Chinquee, author of PIPETTE

"Reading Kathleen McGookey's latest collection, Paper Sky, reminds me why I love prose poetry. Sublime, profound, and deeply felt, each poem is like a crystal gem. It's as if she has taken her everyday life and examined it, detail by detail, as if it were a portal to another realm. Like William Stafford, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Killarney Clary, she is a poet who sees the mystery in the ordinary, whose every poem shimmers with light. -Nin Andrews, author of Son of a Bird The clouds in Kathleen McGookey's moving prose poems report on a world that's both familiar and uncanny-""Night and day behaved themselves""; ""Grandmother and Grandfather have already stepped back into their portraits""; ""Dark is dark/ And she is caught in its throat."" They illuminate small but crucial moments, and the indistinct things that move at the edge of our peripheral vision. They also reveal the mysteriousness just below the surface of our daily lives, and in doing so transform what we might mistake for the ordinary into art. You'll never see your own life in quite the same way again. -Sharon Bryan, author of Sharp Stars Brilliant, illuminating, powerful: Paper Sky is a journey into the state of the unexpected, with lovely (sometimes haunting) surprises along the way. McGookey does it again. Read this. It's yet another marvel by one of the best prose poets of our time. -Kim Chinquee, author of PIPETTE"

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Kathleen McGookey has published four books and four chapbooks of prose poems, most recently Instructions for My Imposter (Press 53) and Cloud Reports (Celery City Chapbooks). She is also the translator of We'll See, by French prose poet Georges Godeau. Her work has appeared in many journals, including Copper Nickel, December, Epoch, Field, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, On the Seawall, Poetry East, Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and Tupelo Quarterly, as well as in the anthologies Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, and New Micro: Exceptionally Small Fiction. Her work has been nominated for both a Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net, and has been featured on ""American Life in Poetry,"" Poetry Daily, SWWIM Every Day, and Verse Daily. She lives in Middleville, Michigan, with her family. Depending on the season, she waterskis, downhill skis, walks, and bakes pies.

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