How could you not read a book with those lines in it?”—Shane McCrae, author of In the Language of My Captor "Intuitive forces keep Webster’s poems moving ahead into unexpected but never gratuitous places.

"—Jane Mead, author of World of Made and Unmade "With impeccable grace and verve, Webster doubles down on a discomfiting stereotype, claiming it powerfully as a point of view.

"—Cathy Wagner, author of Nervous Device Elena Karina Byrne said of We Do Not Eat Our Hearts Alone, "With gorgeous maneuvers in language, Webster multiplies image, subject and persona, the way a scientist splits atoms."

Carl Phillips: "Taking on ‘our whole silly empire of sorrow,’ in which the holy is ever vanishing and the body—eager for more than ‘to be entered only metaphorically’—is always trembling, Webster’s poems announce an authentically original voice of astonishing intellectual and formal range, refreshing and disarming in its frankness.

Of Grand and Arsenal, Lisa Russ Spaar wrote: “Obsessed as she was in her first book with time, with fetish and wunderkammer cataloging, with the blur between the sacred and the secular, Webster carries her flood subject matter into new turf in Grand & Arsenal: the political and the erotic, the praised and the indicted, the oracular and the silent.” Nikky Finney: "Kerri Webster’s voice is oracular, new, and legendary, full of land and weather.