Ronda Piszk Broatch is the author of Chaos Theory for Beginners (MoonPath Press, 2023), and Lake of Fallen Constellations, (MoonPath Press). She is the recipient of an Artist Trust GAP Grant. Ronda's journal publications include Greensboro Review, Blackbird, 2River, Sycamore Review, Missouri Review, Palette Poetry, and NPR News / KUOW's All Things Considered. She is a graduate student working toward her MFA at Pacific Lutheran University's Rainier Writing Workshop.

Other poems by Ronda Piszk Broatch in Verse Daily:
December 18, 2022:   "Body Politics" "Back from the butterflies, and the black blackjack jackdaws..."
February 3, 2022:   "Bargaining with the Universe, I Look for Loopholes" "Some bets are made of paper, and you are standing in the rain...."
August 3, 2021:   "Upon Discovering She is Irreversible" "At any given time, she owns only a nub of lint..."
July 21, 2007:   "Inishmór Goats" " The star they made..."

Books by Ronda Piszk Broatch:

Other poems on the web by Ronda Piszk Broatch:
Three poems
"Nothing Was What I Wanted"
Two poems
"Sonnet with Disposition for Resurrection"
Two poems
"My Wings Were Too Perfect"
"In the Dark my Flashlight"
"The Halo of You was Pulled Apart"
"Reasons for Your Forgetting"
Three poems
"I Want To Tell You"
Three poems
Three poems
Two poems
"I Confess I'm Still Afraid of Windows"

Ronda Piszk Broatch's Website.

Ronda Piszk Broatch on Twitter.

About Chaos Theory for Beginners:

"In Chaos Theory for Beginners, Ronda Piszk Broatch turns quantum physics into a surprisingly accessible lens through which we can better grasp not only our relation to the larger universe but to ancestry, interpersonal relations, and the unconscious. Characterized by an affective echoing of sounds throughout myriad associative insights, the poems in this book confirm Broatch as an inimitable no-nonsense romantic who intuits the dialectical advantage in examining doubt and secular revelation...Whether rendering the implications of the night sky, the love of partner, the history of a discovery, the absurdity of contemporary politics, or the blood-links to our past, Broatch is in fact that affirming observer."
—Kevin Clark

"Smart and spirited, playful and intimate, Ronda Piszk Broatch's Chaos Theory for Beginners probes the patterns and uncertainties of our daily lives for the vast solar systems within us, inviting, into our human relationships of grief, wonder, and desire, the cosmos, 'tumbling/ its spent fireworks, blowing confetti/ under our door.' Reading these poems, I am re-ignited with possibility, reminded how the matter and movements of our lives, small as they are, are as exquisite as the complex galaxies, as brilliant and limitless as the stars."
—Jennifer Elise Foerster