Lady Bird

Amelia, where did your bones go… Gilbert asks in a rhetorical verse conversation to Earhart – from one poet to another – that takes flight. Lines that zoom, 45 bank, stall, vertical bank/glide, dive 38 spiral, tailspin, side/slip, split ‘ s’ turn, forward slip/barrel roll, loop inside, loop outside into some of the conspiracy theories surrounding Amelia’ s death. Even though it has been more than eighty years since Earhart’ s been missing, Gilbert writes Lady Bird at the same age that Amelia was when she disappeared.

Kerry Gilbert lives in the Okanagan, where she teaches Creative Writing at Okanagan College. Her first book, (kerplnk): a verse novel of development, was published in 2005 with Kalamalka Press. Her second book of poetry, Tight Wire, was published in 2016 with Mother Tongue Publishing. Little Red is Gilbert’ s most recent poetry collection, with Mother Tongue, released in 2019.