The Impossible Physics of the Hummingbird

The Impossible Physics of the Hummingbird delves into how the impossible happens every day. The hummingbird should not be able to fly-its body too heavy for its slight wings- and yet it does. We should not be able to love, laugh, and find joy in the face of so much grief, labor, disability, and hardship-and yet we do.

Kim Farrar is a writer and collage artist. Her full-length poetry collection, The Impossible Physics of the Hummingbird, is forthcoming from Unsolicited Press in 2025. She is the author of two chapbooks, The Familiar and The Brief Clear, both published by Finishing Line Press. Her poetry has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Salamander, Rhino, New Ohio Review and other literary journals. Her essays have been published in Illness & Grace, Voices of Autism, and Reflections. Her manuscripts, The Impossible Physics of the Hummingbird and Calamities of the Natural World, were semi-finalists in Grayson's poetry contests in 2022 and 2021 respectively. Orbits and Bonds, a chapbook of poems and collages, was a semi-finalist in the New Women's Voices contest by Finishing Line Press in 2022. In 2020 her poem "Powerful Forces" received an honorable mention in the Gemini Poetry Contest. She is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee.