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Cover of What The Tide Brings by Kim Barke: a great blue heron in flight against painterly trees and tall grass.
Poetry collection

What The Tide Brings

By Kim Barke

What the Tide Brings marks the debut of a new voice in poetry. Kim Barke's poems find space along the paths of nature, science, love, and death. Fireflies, buzzing phones, lab rats, and blue herons share the page with the electrical energy felt between two bodies in love. Between losing sleep over sump pumps and rock climbing in Joshua Tree, she captures the everyday sublime: sometimes ragged, often muffled, always thoughtful.

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Kim Barke is a poet, scientist, and creative director. She is the founder of Scientists & Poets, a small press and platform exploring the intersections of language, biology, and the interior life. Kim received NIH fellowships for both her predoctoral and postdoctoral work on opioid addiction. Later, she earned an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College.

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