Learn more about the
Solstice Creative Writing
Programs at Pine Manor College
in Chestnut Hill, MA.
Where Meg is director.

Home By Now is:

• A finalist for the Patterson Poetry Prize
  
• A finalist for Foreword Magazine's
  Book of the Year
  
• Winner of the
  2009 LL Winship/PEN
  New England Award for Poetry
  

Home By Now made its debut, along with three other poetry collections from Four Way Books, on the contemporary best-seller list in November 2009, coming in at #8 (after the likes of Wendell Berry, W.S. Merwin, and Mary Oliver, whose books take up three of the first 7 slots). Visit www.poetryfoundation.org.

Read the Publisher's Weekly
review >

"A brilliant, hard-won second book that will remind you why we go to poetry in the first place; not to be soothed, but to learn. These are smart, tough, sure lyrics. I love the sound of this book, the music she so slyly installed in these poems. I read and marvel."
— Cornelius Eady

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NOW IN THEIR SECOND PRINTINGS:

An Unkindness of Ravens
Meg Kearney's poems weave voices of estrangement and redemption: mothers, daughters, lovers of gin and dead things.

The Secret of Me
A vivid, heartfelt tale of a teenager's poetic quest to discover her place within her adoptive family and within the wider world.
Read Kirkus Reviews's Starred Review for The Secret of Me.