I Could Walk Forever and Know So Little
Coming March 5, 2026 from Green Writers Press!
Traditional preorders are coming soon at Bookshop.org. For now, you may preorder signed copies and gift sets directly from the author.
"I read I Could Walk Forever and Know So Little in two mesmerized sittings and never got over how, in the sorrows of Krissy’s poems, and in their joys, there is equal grandeur. She finds ways to make dread and loss so beautiful it infuses her fears with a fearlessness. Her attention to wildness is exquisite, and embraces opposites without hesitation…. This is sheer mastery, and in a first book! I’ll be reading Krissy with elation for as long as I last."
- David James Duncan, author of Sun House, The Brothers K, and The River Why
my work is to attend
to know how shadows move as sun shifts
to notice every fiddlehead who rises, startling
to call each creature by name
my work is to recognize
all that I do not yet know
tendril after fragment
leaflet after rind
to step
ever deeper
into mystery
which is to say
ever deeper
into you
Krissy Kludt
Poet Krissy Kludt is the founder and executive director of Writing the Wild (co-guided with J. Drew Lanham). Her debut poetry collection, I Could Walk Forever and Know So Little, is forthcoming from Green Writers Press in March of 2026. Her work appears in Taking Liberties (Cutthroat 2025), The Nature of Our Times, Humana Obscura, The Wildness We Tend, Tremblings, and Stories from the Trail (Wayfarer Books 2024). She guides retreats and workshops on writing, creativity, and nature connection. She is a convener, and as a former public-school teacher she brings a holistic learning approach to each experience she guides. She is most at home in the hills; after two decades in California, she and her family now reside in the Driftless region of southwestern Wisconsin.
