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The Girl in the Mirror by Meg KearneyOut in April 2012

The Girl in the Mirror

Meg Kearney is a deft magician —sensitively weaving scenes and histories, lively conversation and internal reckoning, into a warm world of relationships. Her poems in The Girl in the Mirror feel comfortably vernacular, while embodying a surprising number of poetic forms. It's amazing what Kearney does with presences and absences—people who aren't quite there anymore remain potently everywhere—as Lizzie's life unfolds. This book is a generous gift.
— Naomi Shihab Nye, author of Habibi and There Is No Long Distance Now: Stories (forthcoming)

» Read early praise for Meg's forthcoming
YA verse novel
, a sequel to The Secret of Me.

Award Winner

Home By Now is:

  • Winner of the 2009 LL Winship/PEN New England Award
    for Poetry

  • A finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize

  • A finalist for Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year

"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 by Meg KearneyThe Secret of Me, by Meg KearneyAn 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.