Our guest this week is Kate Rogers. Her poem “False Spring” is forthcoming in the Caitlin Press anthology, Sublime: Poems for Vanishing Ice, Editor Yvonne Blomer. Kate won first prize in subTerrain Magazine’s Lush Triumphant Award for her five-poem suite, “My Mother’s House.” Her poem “The Giraffe-bone Knife Set” was shortlisted for ROOM Magazine’s Poem of the Year contest. Kate’s poetry and essays have appeared in numerous publications in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., and Asia. Kate lives in Cobourg where she can often be found walking the harbour. Frontenac House says of Baba Yaga and the Girl Who Ate the Rope that in this collection Kate Rogers reimagines family, folklore, and climate grief. Her muse: the Slavic witch “Baba Yaga, both matriarch and mirror.”