Bauke Kamstra

Bauke Kamstra is a poet who has published with Vine Leaves Press. His collection We All Reach the Earth by Falling appeared in 2014, and it is now out of print. He is known for a four-volume micro-poetry series, Passion Demands a Vocabulary of Desire, released between 2019 and 2020. The poems focus on love, the body, and the relationship between people and nature. In a 2020 interview he said he turned to poetry after developing Palindromic Rheumatoid Arthritis, which affected the fine control of his hands. Before that he worked in visual art.