Rebecca Kaiser Gibson Reads from Opinel: Poems

Rebecca Kaiser Gibson will read from her first full-length poetry collection, Opinel: Poems (Bauhan Publishing). The Opinel is a workaday knife from the French alps used by peasants, shepherds, and artists. In the title poem, Gibson writes that the Opinel can be used to scrape leather, /carve cheese, untangle vine, /release trapped lambs, hack/ out ice, slice flesh. Likewise, she uses these poems to untangle her thoughts on family, culture, nature, and the world we inhabit.

“I’ve read and reread this book three times already, and I still don’t think I’m done with it yet. This is the highest form of praise I can give.” – Joanna Valente, Luna Luna Magazine

Rebecca Kaiser Gibson teaches poetry at Tufts University. She has been published in Agni, Antigonish, the Boston Phoenix, Field, the Greensboro Review, the Harvard Review, MARGIE, Mothering, Northwest Review,Pleiades, Salamander, Slate, the Adroit Journal, 236 Magazine, Tupelo Quarterly, and the Taos Journal of Poetry and Art and has been reprinted in an anthology called Cadence of Hooves as well as featured in VerseDaily. Two of her chapbooks have been published: Admit the Peacock and Inside the Exhibition.