In The Press

In this wise and generous collection, Kirstin Eventyr offers guidance for living by following Calmity's Compass. Her opening poem instructs us that "Calamity is the name of the school you attend; / Chaos, the headmistress." These are poems written from inside life's complexity. They do not fear chaos, and they love all the ways the body lives, changes, and dies. They invite us to love, and "Risk Kinship" with the world both seen and unseen. Richly imagined and imaged with language that compels us to trust them, we're encouraged to "Get Weirder," and what better employment can we have? The speaker says at that poem's end, "Trust me," and I do! I hope you will, too. Immerse yourself in this handbook for brave embodiment. You'll be better for it.

Subhaga Crystal Bacon, author of the Lambda Literary Finalist of Transitory.

The invisible realms blow through my hollow bone sister to bring this medicine of words into this world. Kirstin has created a mythic map calling the soul back home! She shares embodied wisdom through her poetry, reminding us of the wisdom of our ancestors. Reading her poetry is soul food every day. I relish each word.

Bonewoman, Reda Rackley

Calamity's Compass is a powerful North Star lighting a path of wisdom and invitation to finally embrace the parts of us we've been taught to eradicate. This book is a revolution of inspired permission to be whole again. Kirstin writes with the authority and grace that can only come from lived experience. She is a guide of the new way. This book is a shadow Sherpa guiding us down the harrowing slopes of fragment into the land of whole-heartedness we all yearn for and seek.

~Chelan Harkin, author of The Prophetess, The Return of The Prophet from the Voice of The Divine Feminine

In this collection of poems, Kirstin Eventyr unveils homecoming available to the bold who bear up to belonging in this troubled wondrous landscape of body, collectivity, earth, and kosmos. This handbook of ensoulment enlists kind courage and fierce clarity for the task of intimate and wild incorporation. If this book has found a way to you, it is already too late. You have been welcomed. You have been claimed.

Leticia Nieto, author of Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment