Brief Histories, Abbie Kiefer
Published March 2024
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Brief Histories defines what it means to look up: the wonder that arises from our smallness when we face the world and what was built before us. Kiefer’s poetry has us gaze at the town steeple and admire the works and sacrifices of ancestors, sitting at the feet of the present and past.
- Chris Crowder, managing editor of The Adroit Journal

Abbie Kiefer's Brief Histories dazzle the line between inventory and invention in their exploration of the past--both personal and collective. These poems tip over barrels so they can sing of loss and revival, of making do "so long it feels like devotion."  
-Amie Whittemore, author of Nest of Matches

Abbie Kiefer's work is forthcoming or has appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Ploughshares, RHINO, The Southern Review, West Branch, and other places. She lives in New Hampshire. Find her online at abbiekieferpoet.com.