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KB Ballentine
KB Ballentine’s latest collection All the Way Through was published in November 2024 from Sheila-Na-Gig Inc. Current books can be found with Blue Light Press, Iris Press, Middle Creek Publishing, and Celtic Cat Publishing. Published in North Dakota Quarterly, Atlanta Review and Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, and others, her work also appears in anthologies including Women Speak (2025) and The Strategic Poet (2021). Learn more at www.kbballentine.com.
Becoming a Horizon
A calling from the trees, a sudden sound swelling from branch to branch, surrounding me. The air fills, quivers with a gulp of swallows then I see it – a falcon coaxed by thermal tides, golden wings stretching in the light that lingers. Like a growl rumbling from the neighbor’s cat over […]