We’re excited to share with you this conversation with Adrie Rose, a poet and trained folk herbalist who lives beside an orchard in Western Massachusetts. Adrie is the editor of Nine Syllables Press at Smith College. Her chapbook Rupture came out in January of 2024, and her micro chapbook I Will Write a Love Poem came out in 2023.

In today’s conversation, Kaitlin and Adrie discuss Adrie’s writing and the connections between her personal experiences and her work on the page. Specifically, the way in which her wider personal history- one that has included everything from the creation of a bakery to investigations of folk herbalism- as well as a life threatening ectopic pregnancy, that all came together to inform her writing in unexpected and evocative ways.

We know you'll enjoy this conversation with Adrie. We personally learned a lot about what it means to live in the world, and also to bring those lived experiences to the page in the form of some really, really meaningful and personal poetry.

Find more of Adrie’s work here: 

• Website: https://www.adrierose.com/
• Instagram: @adrierose_
• Substack: https://adrie.substack.com/ 

Also mentioned in the podcast:

• Artist Residency in Motherhood (ARiM): https://www.artistresidencyinmotherhood.com/ 

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