My words are paper birds that fly away

Linda’s poetry chapbook, Pop-Up Shrines, will be available from Finishing Line Press in September 2025.

Pre-order your copy now through August 1st!

Pop-Up Shrines explores how illness and disability coexist with new rooms of discovery and resilience. It’s an exploration of life’s “dark corners feathered in wonder.”

Early Praise for Pop-Up Shrines:

Pulitzer Prize winner, Philip Schulz, said: “I've never read poems like these, so honest and probing, so unrelentingly courageous in their desire to leave nothing unsaid.”

Poet Stephanie Adams-Santos called the book: “a glowing, tectonic landscape of the heart.”

And if you like strong coffee, here’s how Oregon Poet Laureate, Kim Stafford, described Pop-Up Shrines:

“If you could capitulate to utter honesty about the knotted tangle of difficult love, you would write poems like the ones that fill this book, that demand full attention and reward only the strong. If most love poems partake of wine and moonlight, these deliver strong coffee—bold-hearted, indelible, and true.”