Stacie M. Kiner is a former fellow at the Vermont Studio Center and Hannah Kahn Memorial Award recipient. Her poems have appeared in The Charlotte Poetry Review, Madison Review, Comstock Review, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Apalachee Quarterly, The Ekphrastic Review, Lavender Review, Panoply, Rhino, The Southeast Review, SWWIM, Chameleon Chimera, An Anthology of Florida Poets and, Finishing Line Press, New Women’s Voices Series – the chapbook, Inventory.
Stacie is the former moderator of a poetry talk show in Miami, a retired librarian, Essays Editor for the South Florida Poetry Journal and an urban gardener. She lives in South Florida with her wife and too many tomato plants.
Listen to Stacie M. Kiner reading “Crosscurrents” - forthcoming in Calyx Literary Journal, 2024
Books
Inventory, by Stacie M. Kiner
Finishing Line Press, 2021
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Stacie M. Kiner’s beautiful, wise, merciful collection Inventory begins with the words of Eavan Boland about “the surface of things,” how they “barely hold…what is under them,” then deftly, subtly, and keenly mines these real and metaphorical surfaces, and as readers, we are all the richer for it. She does not expound, but rather, asks often heart-stoppingly astute questions of the largest themes of our lives: death and the dead (“where aren’t they?”), love (“a small/hard word”), loss, longing, memory, the natural and inevitable world, and how to live in it.
Elisa Albo
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In these deftly crafted poems, Stacie M. Kiner performs a raw and honest inventory of objects and moments that accrete meaning. However, this work is far from dull and dutiful; with a lively curiosity and a restless desire for life, these poems carry and celebrate all the beautiful and brutal moments that together make a life.
Emma Bolden
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“When your body/decides it wants/its own words” is a perfect summation of Stacie M. Kiner’s poems. They are both visceral and lyrical at the same time, taking you on a trip into her very personal and expansive world. Her words here always seem to be the right words, the words her body wants.
Dr. Barbra Nightingale
Editor
South Florida Poetry Journal, Essays Editor
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