Poet Caroline Harper New, winner of the 2023 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry (awarded to a poet in the Midwest), joins Mitch Nobis for conversation and a reading from her book “A History of Half-Birds.”
Caroline Harper New is a poet, artist, and anthropologist from southern Georgia, her poetry is rooted in the precarious landscape of the Gulf Coast, where she traces how violence born of devotion manifests not only in our human relationships, but also in our connections to the natural and animal worlds.