Napa Bookmine is delighted to present a special evening with #1 New York Times bestselling author Kate Baer in conversation with local author Teresa Pham-Carsillo on November 11, 2025, in partnership with The Uptown Theatre.
Doors @ 7pm | Show @ 8pm
Kate Baer is the 3x New York Times bestselling author of What Kind Of Woman, I Hope This Finds You Well, & And Yet. Her work has also been published in The New Yorker, Literary Hub, Huffington Post, and The New York Times.
Her next book, How About Now, is out November 4, 2025.
How About Now, Kate Baer’s fourth poetry collection, is bold, compassionate, and confronts the march of time in a shifting world. With her trademark candor and curiosity, Baer explores what it means to grow older, to release children into the wildness of their own lives, and to reclaim the ever-evolving self. Raw, luminous, and urgent, this collection channels Baer’s own journey to middle age into poems that are profoundly intimate yet resound universally, identifying the beauty, resilience, and fragility that arrive in every stage of life.
How About Now is a striking declaration of ongoing transformation and self-discovery. From the poet who has captured the heartbeat of the modern woman, this collection reaffirms Kate Baer’s place among the most vital voices of our era.
Praise for How About Now:
"Kate Baer’s poetry is a prescription for the agony of modern living; each word she writes convinces me that nothing is mundane and everything is meaningful." — Nora McInerny, author of Bad Vibes Only and It's Okay to Laugh
"Raw, honest, painful, inspiring. To see oneself reflected in another person's words is such an important reminder of how not alone we actually are. Beautiful and real." — Jenny Lawson, New York Times bestselling author of Let's Pretend This Never Happened and You Are Here
“Kate Baer's poems are so full of life—life as it is now, life as it is for so many of us who are women and wives and mothers—that I can hear them breathing. I loved this book.” — Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow
“Midlife, midnight. In love and out of it. Kids, cats, the ominous pulse of time, time, time. Every Kate Baer poem in How About Now is a lifeline, tethering one woman to herself. To read this collection is to be known." — Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch
Teresa Pham-Carsillo is a Vietnamese American writer based in Napa, California.
Her poetry, short fiction, and essays have been featured in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Poetry Magazine, The Southern Review, and Black Warrior Review.
Teresa is the Chief Content Officer at Spinsters Row and runs the popular @poeticpuppets account on Instagram, where she pairs iconic Muppet imagery with poetry.
Tickets $60.00 with hardcover book / $50.00 with paperback book
(all tickets come with books, no tix sold without book)
Book signing post show.
12+
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