Shannon Curtin

Things Hard and Lovely

Things Hard and Lovely is a collection of poems about motherhood, identity, time, and fragility spanning a decade spent witnessing and reflecting on the mundane miracles of life. The poems kaleidoscope between the personal and the universal, dancing with the physical world and the spaces untethered to the earth (digital, spiritual, and otherwise).

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File Cabinet Heart

File Cabinet Heart is a unique lens that magnifies our everyday lives to show a sharper picture of our intimacies. Curtin’s poems are often weapons that fend off the dangers of closeness. They range from cautionary tales of the brutal truths of being exposed to a lover to the rebirth and forgiveness necessary to our navigation of life and love.

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