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 …
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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 …
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!
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 …
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 …
