Songs from the Summer Kitchen - Terpstra, Dawn
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We sing the gossip like plumeria breezes early in the morning. In Dawn Terpstra's first chapbook, she explores a world of women who view their circumstances through an outsider's lens. She is the sister on the edge of the bench in the summer kitchen, painting toenails with the women in her family. The summer kitchen is a safe space where sisters pass time sharing stories about what it means to be a woman from anywhere. Inside a collective of women's experience, women negotiate agency between borders of culture and generation. "In dreams, water runs downhill, disappears down a sandy arroyo,…mehr

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We sing the gossip like plumeria breezes early in the morning. In Dawn Terpstra's first chapbook, she explores a world of women who view their circumstances through an outsider's lens. She is the sister on the edge of the bench in the summer kitchen, painting toenails with the women in her family. The summer kitchen is a safe space where sisters pass time sharing stories about what it means to be a woman from anywhere. Inside a collective of women's experience, women negotiate agency between borders of culture and generation. "In dreams, water runs downhill, disappears down a sandy arroyo, blessed by something that is not God. But a magician with a bottle of Milagro-" Poems place the reader inside the minds and hearts of those who love, who suffer loss and shame, who cope with dissonance through delusion and fantasy, those who seek self in moments of clarity, flashes of joy and pride. These sisters share their stories, creating an intimate truth that strays from belief outside the screen door of the summer kitchen.
Autorenporträt
Dawn Terpstra lives in Iowa where she leads a member relations team in the cooperative energy industry. She has spent a career in communications, including work in radio, corporate marketing, and consulting. She earned master's degrees from Iowa State University in both anthropology and family studies. Her graduate fieldwork was conducted in Guam and Palau. Her poetry appears in The Night Heron Barks, Briar Cliff Review, Citron Review, Persimmon Tree, San Pedro River Review, SWWIM, Third Wednesday, Eastern Iowa Review, Conestoga Zen, and Lyrical Iowa, plus her work is included in Telepoem Booth Iowa, sponsored by Humanities Iowa. She is a finalist for the Midwest Review's 2021 Great Midwest Poetry Contest. She produces bi-weekly workshop and poetry reading videocasts for the Iowa Poetry Association.