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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
I’m on a podcast!
Check out Colorado Review's most recent podcast episode! I sit down with Meghan Pipe and Stephanie G'Schwind to discuss the Fall issue of the magazine and other literary things we're grateful for. Listen to me read some dope poems from the issue! http://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/november-2017-podcast-fallwinter-2017-editors-chat/ Love to all.
An Interview
If you're curious about my new job as a managing editor at the Colorado Review, check out my recent interview with the English Department at Colorado State University: https://english.colostate.edu/2017/10/humans-eddy-katherine-indermaur-2/ Love to all!
New Poem: “American Bison”
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?) …
New Mexico, Land of Enchantment, Land of Circles
After two and a half weeks in the high-altitude New Mexico desert sun, I confess my summer freckles have returned. I like to think of them as my skin’s seasonal blossoming. They’re little circular perennials, roots dug deep and hibernating all winter long, waiting for a warm week to reappear. I stayed in Abiquiú, New …
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Katherine Indermaur 