Robin Chapman's most recent collection of poetry is Panic Season (Tebot Bach, 2023, available from spdbooks.org), an account of pandemic years and her husband's triple bypass surgery. Recipient of the Helen Howe Poetry Prize from Appalachia and Outstanding Book of Poetry Awards from the Wisconsin Library Association for Six True Things and The Only Home We Know, she lives in Madison, WI., gardens in Eagle Heights Community Gardens, and hikes weekly in Dane County parks.

Other poems by Robin Chapman in Verse Daily:
April 6, 2020:   "Holding the emptiness softly" "That shower of snow in the lodgepoles..."
February 18, 2017:   "Midnight, and people I love are dying" "and I can't sleep so I'm up thinking..."
July 27, 2014:   "Emptying Out" "Let rue be like the river that pours through..."
November 30, 2011:   "Cassandra Looks at Dark Matter Through Hubble's Eye" "Winter again, and all that futile calling out..."
February 1, 2009:   "Dailiness" "It is the birds..."

Books by Robin Chapman:

Other poems on the web by Robin Chapman:
Two poems
"Time"
Five poems
Two poems
Two poems
Six poems
Two poems
Five poems
"Mapping The Marquette County Hill"
"Enough"
"Vacations"
Two poems

Robin Chapman on Twitter.

About Panic Season:

"This collection spans a critical year, both universally and personally for the author. The entire planet is threatened by a lingering pandemic, while the poet's own spouse must undergo serious surgery. She faces up to them with keen observations and abiding faith in the planet's cyclical rejuvenation. Growing things, in all their phases, whether seasonally alive or in quiet dormancy, are lessons in hope. Garden offerings are precious. Also crucial among these gifts of the earth are animals and birds, so many of which are valued companions in the poet's daily life."
—Jeri McCormick

"Robin Chapman's gaze takes in the perils and beauties of the natural world, and of her rampageous fellow humans, with a fearless open heart. She can be tough. When she looks up to see an eagle's talons clawing into the fish it holds, she takes it as a lesson: dig into the moment. But she also burrows like an inspired beekeeper into the invincible sweetness of everyday life and holds it out to us with both hands."
—Margaret Benbow