This Kind of Knowing

This Kind of Knowing is built of driven lines where we explore mysterious tensions in the cage where the heart paces. From the very beginning in Caving these poems are alive like something blooming / like something you never imagined/ but realized with surprise/ that you could actually love. Thumb through the back issues of Bear River Review. for some of the pieces from This Kind of Knowing.Susannah Sheffer is a staff writer at the national organization Murder Victims Families for Human Rights and also works with teenagers helping them to understand their lives through writing. In addition to This Kind of Knowing check out her new nonfiction title Fighting for Their Lives: Inside the Experience of Capital Defense Attorneys (Vanderbilt University Press 2013).