Natalie Kimbell’s second poetry chapbook, And the Weather Remains the Same (Finishing Line Press), will be released on June 20, 2025, and is available for pre-order now through April 25, 2025.

About And the Weather Remains the Same

In her chapbook, Natalie explores loss and grief, sharing personal losses of love, youth, and death. Often looking to nature to understand, she finds compassion, companionship, and disinterest. Threaded within the raw nature of hurt and loss, her poems offer vibrant imagery and hope.

Praise for On Phillips Creek

And the Weather Remains the Same is a powerful collection of poems that echo grief in failed relationships. Kimbell skillfully uses many metaphors to show the facets of grief from loneliness and loss as a mechanism that leads to hope and ultimately salvation. Whether it’s through weather, plants, butterflies, or fish, the voices are heard in her heart-infused lines: (1) inhale the breeze that ruffles my hair / your musk rising from dead leaves, (2) [what it’s like to survive a broken heart is] like steering your car on a narrow switchback // two-lane road on an unfamiliar mountain through a storm, (3) You melt yellow poplar like ripened pears, / from green to gold to dark honey, (4) I plow head downward …leave a wake / of petals indifferent to the beauty / of small things, and many more. Even humor slips in to crack a smile at hurt, let alone irony. Kimbell shows her command of language and form and this is a highly recommended read to find solace despite the pain. –John C. Mannone, author of Sacred Flute (Iris Press, 2024) and seven other collections

 And the Weather Remains the Same  (Finishing Line Press) is available for pre-order now through April 25, 2025. Learn more about Finishing Line Press.

About the Author

Natalie Kimbell grew up in Sequatchie County, Tennessee. She has spent forty-one years teaching English and theater arts at Sequatchie County High School. She is a mother, grandmother and lover of all things that sparkle. Her work appears in Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel, Mildred Haun Review, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Artemis, Tennessee Voices, 23 Tales: Appalachian Ghost Stories, Legends and Other Mysteries, and Women Speak. Her first poetry chapbook, On Phillips Creek, is available with Finishing Line Press.