Cover of a poetry collection entitled "Abide" by K. T. Landon. Painting of two yellow big-horn sheep standing among red canyons and gazing up at a yellow moon.

Winner of the 2025 Richard Snyder Memorial Prize

Abide

Poems about mortality, caregiving, love,
and the stubborn persistence of joy.

Pre-order Abide

Coming September 1st from Ashland Poetry Press

Praise for Abide

Abide is a book attentive to the world and the movement of thought, with a keen awareness of mortality. Despite suffering and loss, Landon finds meaning and hope, and even joy, in the daily ways we can connect to and care for each other…. It’s no easy task to acknowledge the forces against that stance, yet time and again it happens in this compassionate collection.

— Kim Addonizio

How can you not love a debut collection built from five decades of carefully cached observations, sharp humor, and hard won wisdom? As much a book of loss, as a book of grief, as a book of navigating, renewing, and appreciating long love, Abide is a record of and a guide for a life well-lived, one that fully acknowledges mortality while still insisting on joy.

— Jessica Jacobs

Gravitas, wisdom, song and strong skill. If you want the real deal, you’ve come to the right place. Abide may be K.T. Landon’s first full-length collection but it is by no means her first rodeo. She is, and has been for a while now, one of my favorite poets… And I am overjoyed that you, Reader, hold in your hands, finally, an opportunity to catch up!

— John Murillo