SIGNED I Could Walk Forever and Know So Little

Set among the oak-dotted hills and granite heights of northern California, I Could Walk Forever and Know So Little distills moments of communion with the natural world into spare, lilting language. The poems traverse ordinary days and periods of loss; they are elegy and wish. They examine motherhood and daughterhood and turn to the living land as source of solace and nurturing. Each poem reaches for reverent wakefulness, “to attend / to know how shadows move as sun shifts / to notice every fiddlehead who rises, startling.”

Poet Krissy Kludt is the founder and executive director of Writing the Wild. Her debut poetry collection, I Could Walk Forever and Know So Little, is forthcoming from Green Writers Press in March 2026. Her work appears in anthologies Taking Liberties (Cutthroat 2025), The Nature of Our Times (Paloma Press 2025), and Stories from the Trail (Wayfarer Books 2024) and in publications such as Humana Obscura, The Wildness We Tend, and Tremblings. 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.