A review by whitmc
What Kind of Woman: Poems by Kate Baer

5.0

This little book makes me so happy so many reasons. First, Kate Baer got us all to read poetry. Come on. Poetry! That dreaded quarter of freshman English we were all happy to leave behind us! Second, I have been reading Baer's writing since back when we were all bloggers on free blogger.com pages without perfect pictures staged for Pinterest (because it didn't exist yet) or social media (because no one used social media that way yet); it was just people writing and others commenting and connecting lives over ordinary things. Baer's top 10 lists were a hit, and her stories about her for son, then daughter made so many of us laugh about those early motherhood days. And when so many of us dropped our free sites, she kept going, evolving, writing and writing and getting better and better. And she was keeping the poetry under wraps, and then she released bits and bits and damn.

Poetry.