These last few months have moved at a breakneck pace! Defend my master's thesis, finish graduate school, finish teaching undergraduate course, leave my job at Colorado Review, find a new job, pack and move to Utah, unpack, plan my wedding, start a new job... and--oh yeah--try to squeeze in some time writing and some time outside amid …
Author: Katherine Indermaur
Hear Me Read This Week!
If you happen to be in the vicinity of Colorado's Front Range this week and want to hear some poems, please come hear me read from my thesis manuscript (that I just finished writing!!) alongside the inimitable and brilliant poet Emma Hyche. Here are the deets: Thursday, April 11 7PM Gregory Allicar Museum of Art …
Art after #MeToo
It’s a sentiment we hear debated a lot these days: love the art, hate the artist. Is this possible? What if the artist in question used the fame, wealth, and power they earned from making their art to hurt others? On the one hand, it’s impossible to separate art from its creator. On the other, …
Who Says It’s Over?
I don't feel like a very patriotic person these days. I'm not proud of America—neither now nor of our past. I don't really understand what American culture is and, when I do, it makes me sad and angry to think that foreigners associate Americans with loud, pushy, short-sentenced, nouveau riche, white men. At a Gillian …
The Good-Guy Rapist
Popular media often depicts rapists as mentally ill monsters. This falsehood does harm, and not just to those struggling with mental illness. It allows rapists to say, I didn’t rape anyone; as you can see, I’m clearly neither mentally ill nor a monster. They think their clean bill of mental health and normal, human appearance …
Prague & Poland: A Brief Adventure in Photos
I kept trying to write this blog post quickly, and it kept devolving into a long essay because, well, it's hard not to do that when you love to write. So I'm trying to make this into a *photo* essay (not without some relevant text, of course) since I'm pretty sure the internet is actually …
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My First Chapbook!
I'm so happy to announce that my first chapbook, Pulse, is now available from Ghost City Press! If you are also compelled by bodies and gravity and light and desire, please visit their website to download a PDF copy. Pulse is free but, should you choose to donate, all donations will come directly to me--so thank you …
