Kim Fahner: Poetry inspired by pollinators, reflections on the environment, and more

This episode of On Creative Writing is for lovers of poetry everywhere! Beautifully talented poet Kim Fahner reads two poems from her new collection of poetry, The Pollination Field. The poems Kim has selected are "Man, Sleeping on the Living Room Floor" and "Attic Colony". Kim is a poet, novelist, playwright, and teacher based in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. She is chair of the Writers Union of Canada, and was the poet laureate for the City of Greater Sudbury from 2016 to 2018. The Pollination Field was published this summer by Turnstone Press. This new collection is a poetic foray into the literal and metaphorical world of bees, but it also includes an exploration of other pollinators such as bats, beetles, birds, butterflies, dragonflies, and even humans.In these poems, Kim continues with her poetic observation and documentation of how the human world impacts the environment. Kim also incorporates myth and feminism in her consideration of how women evolve over time. Read more about Kim, her writing, and the pollination field in the show notes.Read Kim Fahner's Q&A interview with Oncreativewriting.com, and find Kim at Kimfahner.com.