Hello, everyone! Long time no see. It's been a little crazy here starting a new semester and a new job, but I promise I've been up to things. The lovely online poetry mag Muse /A Journal just came out with their gorgeous fifth issue, and my poem "American Bison" (hmmm, wonder what it could be about?) …
Category: Poetry
A National Wound
Something I’ve been considering lately—and I know I’m not alone in this—is our current political moment in America. Not only is our president unpopular and repulsively incapable of coherence, but many recent events are arguably assembling into an assault on empathy and compassion. This nonstop rhetoric of division. Trump backed the US out of the …
National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month, so what better time of year for a blog post about poetry? When I was an undergraduate, one of my English professors challenged all the students in my class to think of just five living poets (published, please- not your friend who has a Tumblr). I was surprised but not …
Announcement: Grad School!
Reading and writing are two of my earliest loves. My mom is fond of recalling how, on my first day in kindergarten, I read aloud Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat for the entire class. When I was perhaps 8 or 9, my dad gave me an old IBM Thinkpad that ran Windows 95. …
When Life Ends But Love Doesn’t
My grandmother, Anne Carter Webster, passed away at home on Tuesday December 15th. She'd been diagnosed with terminal leukemia a week prior to her death. She was 75 years old. My mom asked if I'd write something to read for the funeral last Tuesday, the 22nd. The following is what I wrote, and subsequently read. …
Poem: A Beat Behind
A Beat Behind Kant says we are removed from these moments of our lives and we only know their effect just as our vision of stars’ light, living on after their technicolored deaths, is distant from the star itself, heaving gas and heat, a flame – no, a frame of light just visible and always …
My Summer Reads
I love that it's summer. Seriously. Laramie is gorgeous right now - colorful, sunny, lush, and comfortable. The highs in the summer here reach the highs 70's, low 80's (Fahrenheit, duh), which is room temperature in the South. If that doesn't make you want to come visit us, I don't know what will! I have a …
Re: Why Writing about Bodies Is Vital
This post is in direct response to Leslie Jamison’s essay from The Atlantic, “‘We Sweat, Crave and Itch All Day’: Why Writing about Bodies Is Vital.” If you haven’t read it yet, I highly suggest you do. You can find it here. Many credible artists suffered from debilitating illness or chronic pain or injury: Frida …
A Quick Trip to North Carolina
When I was in North Carolina briefly last weekend, I tried to sit outside in the insanely nice 70-degree weather and sunshine as much as possible. This resulted in my eventual sunburn. Being comfortable outside in normal clothes? I'd forgotten what it felt like. I ate lunch on Friday at Vimala's, an excellent Indian restaurant …
Easy to Forget
Below are a few brief thoughts I wanted to share with you all before I get back to doing what I should really be doing. (That ever-growing pile of clothes next to my bed isn't going to fold itself?) A wonderful description of love I came across today, from this poem: "I have one way …
Katherine Indermaur 