Lovers in the Free Fall

by Elizabeth Gordon McKim

Overview

These poems use trans-cultural narratives to address current issues of our country and the world, and of the poet’s own life and times. In a variety of forms and shapes—sestinas, haikus, free verse, blues and ballads, myths and memory—they carry the narrative thread through the pulse of beginnings, change, and continuance. Both local and far-flung, these poems are meant to be heard, enjoyed, and carried into the reader’s own life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781948585118
Publisher:	Leapfrog Press
Publication date:	09/01/2020
Pages:	100
Product dimensions:	6.75(w) x 8.75(h) x (d)

About the Author

McKim, known as “the jazz poet of Lynn,” is the author of eight collections of poetry and coauthor of the teaching guide Beyond Words. Her poems and essays have appeared in many journals including Ploughshares, Poetry, and Drum Voices. She is poetry editor of the international journal POIESIS, published in Toronto.
McKim is a pioneer member of the Arts Institute for Expressive Therapy at Lesley University, where she has been a graduate adjunct faculty member for over forty years. She has worked with teachers throughout the US, helping them weave poetry into their daily life and curriculum. She works improvisationally with musicians, dancers, and visual artists, and teaches from a multi-arts trans-cultural perspective.
McKim’s roots are in the oral tradition of song, story, improvisation and poem. She has read and performed her poetry in countless venues, locally and abroad, particularly in Switzerland, where she is Poet Laureate of the European Graduate School in Saas Fee