Dissonance

Dissonance by Kristin Dykstra

By Kristin Dykstra

A collection of poems and photographs that take the foothills of Vermont’s Green Mountains as a microcosm for considering climate change, borders, and community life.

Finalist for the 2025 Vermont Book Award

Dykstra’s Dissonance is a beautiful and powerful book of musical and visual poems about how life survives the endless ways in which the earth and time and our conceptions about the cosmic are out of balance. — Daniel Borzutzky

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Reviews & Related

Reviews of Dissonance and The Star-Spangled Brand in Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion, 2026

Review of Dissonance, by Matt Martinson, for Another Chicago Magazine

Poetry Daily: What Sparks Poetry feature (Other Arts), with a writing prompt; & Poem excerpted from Dissonance

Review of Dissonance, by Nina MacLaughlin, for New England Literary News Substack

“Intermedium,” a commentary series for Jacket2 magazine (University of Pennsylvania), by Kristin Dykstra


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