I wrote this poem and Serena at Poetry Northwest asked for some poems so I sent it with some other poems. I didn’t know it would be the poem she picked, because it was new and I didn’t know what it was and it’s breath… Read More
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To Build A Nest of Citation?
That is, to write an academic essay. For a graduate seminar six years ago I wrote a draft of an essay after reading Thomas Heyrick’s profoundly weird late 17th C ode “The Submarine Voyage” and a doing a great deal of research on old-timey diving… Read More
Ghost Fishing
Thanks to terrain.org for featuring my review of Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. A major work by the editor Melissa Tuckey. I try to be honest and by turns sympathetic, challenging, and accessible. It’s kind of impossible. The long-and-short of it is that I find that… Read More
reading notes: but he did not know where out was
i’ve been down lately. flat as a floor. i hate moving and not having any money. one small joy was my friend carra giving me this treasure, which she said a lot of the ppl she knew in Berkeley carried around in the 90s. as… Read More
new words
Allison Cardon has a tremendous essay on Anne Boyer in the new Tripwire. Maria Garcia Teutsch included a few of my poems in her final issue of Homestead Review. This isn’t the first time MGT has published my work. It’s good to be known, better… Read More
some thoughts on poetry from someone in 1965 imagining what poetry would be on a post-apocalyptic planet at the end of war whose enemy was imaginary but whose casualties were real
I’ve been falling asleep to Delaney for about six months. Hoping it will irrigate my dreams. And also looking for poetics in unexpected places. Like out of the mouths of characters in a science fiction novel. These are some of my favorite poems, I think.… Read More
Reading in Denver / Death Horse 13
I’m performing in Denver this Saturday w/some rad folks at Death Horse 13. Death Horse 13. Here’s some details: The Time: Saturday, 5/18/19, 6-8 p.m. The Place: Bar Max, 2412 E Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80206 Kate Colby is the author of seven books of poetry, most… Read More
