HOW THE FROGS GET MARRIED (paperback)

Kimberly Wolf is a poet and parent selling books in Texas. She loves Brian. You can find more of her work at kimberlywolfpoet.com.

“Kimberly Wolf wants to teach you ‘How the Frogs Get Married.' You’re at the reception, already told Mr. Frog & Mrs. Mousie how wonderful they look & what a beautiful ceremony it is, & then you find your table, with you & your sweetheart eternal sat right beside Kimberly & their forever love. As y’all munch away on Frogmore Stew & Po’Boys & down bottomless pitchers of sweet tea & y’all’s better halves laugh at how strong the Southern accent gets when one Southerner talks to another,  Kimberly tells all y’all a story: of life & love & much needed much hated medication & funerals & all the joys & all the pains the little snatches of hills can offer & the cruel fuckery that is the death of a sweetheart & you swear to God at one point Anthony Bourdain is loading plates from the fish fry & collard pots & it’s all a swirling wind of sorrow & unbridled joy a true song of the South, without the cheery racism or corny fuckery. It’s the South I know & hold so dear—of long nights with lightning bugs, drinking Kool-Aid on a backporch listening to Reba & Garth & Brooks & Dunne & smelling the grill & talking with your brother over the when & where Sting will finally take down the nWo while jessamine & apple blossom swam thru the night. Read this book. You’ll love every minute, even when it’s making you weep or wanna call your Mom or Maw-Maw to tell them you love them.” 

— Clem Flowers, author of “TWO OUT OF THREE FALLS,” “I've Been Going Thru Some Things,” & “Motel Neon”

"In ‘How the Frogs Get Married,' Kimberly Wolf gifts the world with love poems to possibilities. She handles what it means to be a person in the process of re-inventing themselves each day, remade in the image of whatever has captured her in the net of living at that exact moment. Wolf pulls at the root of intense desire while struggling with the pain of that wanting, using straightforward and hypnotic prose to wrestle with one of the most long-standing questions there is: what does it mean to be alive?" 

— Kirsten Reneau, author of “What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Weirder”