Winner of the Jacar Press Chapbook Contest
This is wonderful work. The poems in Amaranthine Hour are both vibrant and somehow modest at the same time, wonderfully reflective. The speaker has earned maturity and understanding yet realizes …
Winner of the Jacar Press Full Length Book Contest
Sensuous and precise, these poems explore the boundaries and transgressions between parents, children, lovers: the ways we confine one another, the ways we break free.
“This one just …
“Kaufman’s poems trace a journey of passion, emotional turmoil, loss and reconfiguration, sometimes in natural settings of almost mystical beauty. She can be exact: ‘the heron hushed and studious…’ Or lyrical: ‘…leaves swoop and skirt/the chilling wind …
