Chapbooks are just short books—these days around 15 to 40 pages long. Inside can be any genre of literature (poetry, fiction, nonfiction...), but chapbooks are particularly popular in the poetry world today. Since poems are often much shorter than stories or essays, collecting poems into a shorter volume is just easier to do. So what's …
Author: Katherine Indermaur
Exciting News: A New Chapbook! A Video!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_uEarz1B0E I have some exciting news to share! This summer Coast|NoCoast, an independent press based in Seattle, is publishing my new chapbook, "Facing the Mirror: An Essay." The chapbook is a long prose poem concerning the mirror, its history, and my fraught relationship with it as someone who struggles with a mental disorder known as …
In This Moment, On This Road
Fall in Pando, the world's largest aspen clone, Fishlake National Forest, Utah I heard social worker and researcher Brené Brown say recently on her thought-provoking podcast, “We’re all susceptible to information that delivers us from pain.” There are so many people in pain in America right now. Actual physical pain—the pain of abuse, addiction, withdrawal, …
Support Black Poets
These past few months have been difficult even for those of us who haven't been sick or lost loved ones or been laid off, and on top of the coronavirus pandemic there have been a spate of tragic killings of Black people by police, as well as other racist incidents like the confrontation in Central …
What Are You Capable Of?
The definition of the term “good” is always culturally informed. What are our values? What values did we inherit—from our families, our friends, our communities, our claimed identities? Aaron Sorkin thinks he has goodness, but not everyone does.
Books I Lived with in 2019
Happy New Year, friends! I hope 2020 is off to a great start for you and your loved ones. I've been under the weather all year, but as they say, no place to go but up! Anyway, as the clock hit midnight on New Years Eve and our neighbors ignited all manner of fireworks, I …
Our Wedding
Matt Maloney and I married in a spectacularly sunny ceremony at the Red Reflet Ranch in Ten Sleep, Wyoming on September 14, 2019. We had an unprogrammed Quaker-style ceremony, meaning there was no officiant. Quakers believe that no one person is more divine than any other; they believe that all people have God or divinity …
Thoughts on Community from Salt Lake City
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 …
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, …
