{"id":53535,"date":"2022-12-28T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=53535"},"modified":"2023-01-02T10:56:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T15:56:46","slug":"qa-nyt-bestselling-poet-kate-baer-07-discusses-her-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2022\/qa-nyt-bestselling-poet-kate-baer-07-discusses-her-craft\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A: NYT bestselling poet Kate Baer &#8217;07 discusses her craft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poet and two-time&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/books\/best-sellers\/2020\/11\/29\/trade-fiction-paperback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Times<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;bestselling author&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.katebaer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kate Baer<\/a>\u2018s first book of poetry,&nbsp;<em>What Kind of Woman<\/em>, published in 2020, was met with critical acclaim and quickly catapulted her writing career. Since then, Baer \u2014 an&nbsp;草莓社区&nbsp;graduate, whose work can also be found in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2021\/08\/02\/reasons-to-log-off\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New Yorker<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/05\/06\/parenting\/mothers-day-parenting-essays.html#Baer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New York Times<\/a>, among others \u2014 has published a second collection,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/tmrw\/kate-baer-takes-critical-instagram-messages-turns-them-poetry-t238081\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I Hope This Finds You Well<\/a><\/em>, with her third title,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/farrahpenn\/best-books-releasing-november-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">And Yet<\/a><\/em>, debuting Nov. 8. Her body of work largely focuses on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.romper.com\/p\/unexpected-visitor-in-the-time-of-quarantine-22952983\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">motherhood<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/chireviewofbooks.com\/2020\/11\/12\/what-kind-of-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">navigating life<\/a>&nbsp;in a world disturbed by&nbsp;COVID&nbsp;\u2014 and she has garnered media attention for it, too, from sources like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/cnn-underscored\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CNN<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2021\/nov\/12\/blanked-verse-the-power-of-erasure-poetry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/better.net\/chicago\/arts-events\/books\/qa-bestselling-poet-kate-baer-discusses-her-craft-and-the-importance-of-keeping-it-real\/\"><strong>Read the Q&amp;A with Kate.<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poet and two-time&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;bestselling author&nbsp;Kate Baer\u2018s first book of poetry,&nbsp;What Kind of Woman, published in 2020, was met with critical acclaim and quickly catapulted her writing career. Since then, <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2022\/qa-nyt-bestselling-poet-kate-baer-07-discusses-her-craft\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Q&#038;A: NYT bestselling poet Kate Baer &#8217;07 discusses her craft<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,7931,17562,356],"tags":[],"feature":[17427,17426,17241],"class_list":["post-53535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-arts","category-digest","category-language-and-literature","feature-emu-home-page-feature","feature-myemu-feature","feature-news-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Q&amp;A: NYT bestselling poet Kate Baer &#039;07 discusses her craft - EMU News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2022\/qa-nyt-bestselling-poet-kate-baer-07-discusses-her-craft\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Q&amp;A: NYT bestselling poet Kate Baer &#039;07 discusses her craft - EMU News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Poet and two-time&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;bestselling author&nbsp;Kate Baer\u2018s first book of poetry,&nbsp;What Kind of Woman, published in 2020, was met with critical acclaim and quickly catapulted her writing career. 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