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Review by Heather Swan: The Animals of My Earth School
“We can choose goodness.” I am absolutely honored and thrilled to share this riveting review of The Animals of My Earth School by the remarkable poet, teacher, and essayist Heather Swan, published in Terrain.org Once in a while a poet finds kinship with another poet and shares it with great wisdom and profound understanding. […]
The Animals of My Earth School
Released to the world on April 10, 2023 Copies available via Terrapin Books and all other bookstore outlets. In The Animals of My Earth School, Mildred Kiconco Barya gives us magnificent hungers and provocative feasts. Her poems tutor us via insects, mammals, birds, and reptiles in the slippages of time and place and the swerves […]
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In the compassionate, playful, fable-like poems of The Animals of My Earth School, Mildred Kiconco Barya awakens us to the vividly singing, fully alive, non-human communities surrounding us. These poems demonstrate poetry’s unique ability to prick us from our self-involved numbness and awaken us to wonder. There is great solace, tenderness, and innocence here—the kind of innocence capable of […]
News: The Animals of My Earth-School Institute
I am very delighted to announce that my poetry collection, The Animals of My Earth-School Institute, is forthcoming from Terrapin Books, 2023. You can read a sample—Factors—published on poets.org.
August Poetrio Libation
Join us for our monthly poetry event featuring three poets and hosted by poet Mildred Barya. This month, we welcome Poetrio: Crystal Stone, Sally Rosen Kindred, and Rick Mulkey. Click here to RSVP. On the day of the event, we will send a reminder email with the link required to attend. Like most of our events, […]
July Poetrio Libation
Join us for our monthly poetry event featuring three poets and hosted by poet Mildred Barya. This month, we welcome Saddiq Dzukogi, Jen Karetnick, and Michael Hettich. Click here to RSVP to attend. On the day of the event, we will send a reminder email with the link required to attend. Like most of our events, […]
June Poetrio Libation
Excited once more to introduce three wonderful poets reading in June Join us for our monthly poetry event featuring three poets hosted by yours truly. This month, we welcome Angela Narciso Torres, Caridad Moro-Gronlier, and Jehanne Dubrow. Click here to RSVP. On the day of the event, we will send a reminder email with the link required […]
“…a relentless attempt to express the inexpressible.”
May Highlights: 1. Finishing strong in spite of… (whichever way you interpret that). 2. Mating turkeys. The thrill of joy to watch strutting turkeys in my yard, full of pride (shame has no place here). 3. Mildred Barya in Conversation with Michael Hettich. I have the greatest pleasure to share with you this comprehensive interview titled: […]
Happy National Poetry Month!
Join us for our monthly poetry event featuring three poets. This month, we welcome Petra Kuppers, Rodney Terich Leonard, and Kevin Prufer. Click here to RSVP for this event. On the day of the event, we will send a reminder email with the link required to attend. Like most of our Malaprop’s events, this event is […]
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