“These multifaceted, fierce, and tender revelations on pregnancy—a ‘baby extracted / like a bad tooth,’ a ‘little unicorn soul’—and on mothering in a world marked by loss and gun violence cement Hewitt’s arrival as a captivating, self-aware poet. Creature in Bloom will both gut and heal you when you least expect it.”

— Cynthia Marie Hoffman

“Hewitt gives voice to the mundane and monstrous challenges of being not only a parent but a person in this world—and urges us to keep on. Blessing and reckoning, elegy and prayer, this book is a testament to the everyday courage of mothers—that word for strength born from the heart.”

— Leila Chatti