Kate Baer’s poetry did not come out of a drive to bring humor to the world of Instagram poetry or long-suffering parental narratives. She got her footing on the internet as a mommy blogger, though when she tells this story, speaking on the phone from her house near Hershey, Pennsylvania, where she lives with her four children and her husband, she underlines that when she began putting her writing online almost a decade ago, she saw blogging as a way to air struggles with parenting rather than to celebrate cute after-school crafts or other triumphs. When mommy blogging began to take, as she puts it, a “modern farmhouse” turn, she shut her site down and began to work on a thriller, something far from personal narrative.
Baer’s debut book of poetry, What Kind of Woman, out next week, marked a return to the subject of parenthood. The book began when, while putting away the baby clothes for her third child, she found out she was pregnant with a fourth—just weeks before her husband was scheduled to get a vasectomy. Depression set in almost immediately. “I didn’t even know there was a term for it—antenatal depression, depression during pregnancy,” she says. “But I felt it immediately, as almost a chemical reaction within my body.” Even after the darkest parts of the depression lifted, Baer says, she feared for her own mental health. And so she resolved to parent her fourth child differently than she had previously: She breast-fed less, she hired more childcare, she took on part-time jobs to afford the childcare—all so that she could find time to write the poems that became What Kind of Woman. (Baer’s husband began his training to be a doctor when she had her first child. He is now completing his residency.)
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