Postcards from Montana

Postcards from Montana is a woman's testimonial of love for a place.  How to put into words and images that love when the place is so vast, so unfathomable in its beauty?  "I write these 'postcards' not to claim fluency or belonging," says poet Brooke Herter James, "but rather to set down exactly what I see . . . ."  And what a joy it is to "see" love and place through the camera lens and praiseful language of a spirit attuned to what others might take for granted.  These aren't simply postcards from Montana: these are postcards from the heart.  Thank you, Brooke Herter James, for waking me again in the paradise of gratitude.

Brooke Herter James is the author of two poetry chapbooks, The Widest Eye (2016) and Spring Took the Long Way Around (2019) and one children's book, Why Did the Farmer Cross the Road? (2017). Her poems have appeared in PoemTown Vermont, Mountain Troubadour Poetry Journal, Orbis, and Rattle (forthcoming) as well as the online publications Poets Reading the News, New Verse News, Flapper Press, Typishly and Writing in a Woman's Voice. She was chosen as a finalist in the Poetry Society of Vermont's 2019 National Poetry Contest. She is a devoted member of the Wednesday Poets, a group of Vermont and New Hampshire writers who meet weekly to share their work. When Brooke is not writing postcards from Montana, she can be found living on a small farm in Vermont with her husband, four hens, two donkeys and a dog.