Chapbook Release

My chapbook Fragments Found in a 1937 Aviator's Boot is now available from Dancing Girl Press. The cover image was created by Zach Kleyn (that is Earhart's Electra, and my hand), and Editor Kristy Bowen did a marvelous job designing the book.

You can purchase it for $7 (that includes shipping) here. I also recommend browsing their catalogue, as they have a ton of work from a lot of great, smart female poets.

Here are two blurbs for the book:

"If poetry's element is air, then Kate Durbin's words soar and swirl like Amelia Earhart's own stunts--these pages give voice to forgotten courage and entrance us with their daring."

--Gabriela Jauregui, author of Controlled Decay

"There are compelling personalities whose narratives offer no closure. Amelia Earhart's is one of these. Kate Durbin's collection of poems about Earhart satisfies one of our questions--what might she have been thinking, what words would she have offered about her final days when she knew she and her co-pilot were beyond hope? Durbin's poems play on many levels and move the action against scrims of sky and weather. This collection, personal and intense, is a valentine to flight and to unfulfilled dreams."

--Eloise Klein Healy, author of The Islands Project: Poems for Sappho