Linda Malm was published as a teen and only returned to poetry after she retired as a college dean. She won the competition to become a writer of Los Luceros (the Robert Redford/NM Film Board Enterprise) and more recently has been actively publishing both on-line and in print journals and anthologies. In 2023 Kelsay Books published her first chapbook, Winded from the Chase. Following the book launch, The Taos News reviewed it as “embracing wildness without fear.” It also noted “acute observations on mortality.” Wild Familiars is described in a blog by Sawnie Morris as musical, witty, and “the spirit of an elder woman- one who has arrived in beauty, alert to the gifts and complexities of the natural world… showing us the way”
PRAISE:
Wild Familiars by Linda Malm is a lush chapbook that turns to birds as guides, offering quiet wisdom on life, mortality, and our place in the natural world. Malm’s poems shimmer with intimate observations, inviting readers to witness the beauty around us, and the truths it gently reveals.
–Leah Huete de Maines, Poet-in-Residence Emerita at Northern Kentucky University
Who can resist the music in lines like “iridescent dragonfly lighted on a lily pad?” –– or, the paradox at work in, “The pond, a sunken socket. Blue eye/still outstares the drying sun,”––or, this poet’s wit and visual punning that flares up in haiku, “Below a flowering branch/ a hummingbird feeder glows./ Tail light in low sun” ? Best of all is the spirit of an elder woman –– one who has arrived in beauty, alert to the gifts and complexities of the natural world–– showing us the way.
–Sawnie Morris’s poetry collection, Her, Infinite was the winner of the 2015 New Issues Press Poetry Award. Additional awards include: the Ruth Stone Poetry Award and inclusion in BAX2016: Best American Experimental Writing. She served as the Inaugural Poet Laureate of Taos, NM.
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