Linda Bierds

Linda Bierds is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently The Hardy Tree (Copper Canyon Press, 2019). Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Smithsonian, Poetry, and The Best American Poetry, as well as several times in Plume. She teaches the graduate poetry workshop at the University of Washington in Seattle.

  • Rembrandt and the Great Drought

    Before your birth, of course, the drought
  • ABC Minors

    Painted in oils on wood, the entire composition
  • Dirt

    Just after Wierex etched a toddler Christ