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Listen to Katherine E. Young on the Badass Women-Folk Podcast Christine Sloan Stoddard hosts the Badass Lady-Folk podcast produced by Quail Bell Press. Badass Lady-Folk is a podcast about "socially engaged women & NB femmes kicking buns big & small." On the most recent episode, Katherine E. Young discusses several new projects including a poetry anthology composed of poems from Arlington County, VA and an English translation of a controversial (in Russia) Russian novel. … [Read more...]
"Woman Dinking Absinthe" Now Available! Katherine E. Young's evocative new collection of poems, Woman Drinking Absinthe, is now available from Alan Squire Publishing. Katherine E. Young's second collection follows up the critically acclaimed Day of the Border guards and was written during her tenure as Arlington County Poet Laureate. The poems in Woman Drinking Absinthe probe the extremes of passion and transgression, desire and its aftermath. The mood is Paris, the morning after a debauch: bitter hot chocolate, a croissant, and a strong aftertaste of the previous night. The setting … [Read more...]
TEMA TOWN BABY Written in May 2020 As a kid, my Uncle Ron made a big impression on me. At the time, I lived with my family in Ghana where my father worked as a medical researcher. In the middle of our four-year stay, Uncle Ron joined us in West Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer. He taught in a small village, Anum, a few hours east of the capital, Accra, where we lived. Curious about his life in Anum, I decided to spend my spring break with him shortly after I turned nine. My parents dropped us off by the side of Accra's motorway and, thumbs out, we were soon picked up by a yellow … [Read more...]
Caring for my Husband During the Pandemic Written Dec 31, 2020 Image by Emily Jay (emily-jay.com) Unless you lived with him, you'd not know anything were wrong. He forgets what day it is, then what he planned to cook. In the middle of the pandemic he can't go out, so he never has to panic, search for where he parked the car. My job is to protect him. He's 76 years old and has diabetes. I'm watching over him, won't let him take any risks. I double check the shopping list, won't let him go to the market and pick among the beef ribs, which is his delight. I, who've only done … [Read more...]
SELECTED WAR STORIES Written Aug, 2020 Another war starts. Living men fold open the dirt. * 1st war put feet on the map, saying, Here are tickets to the rockets. Most common word was millions. Example: millions of poets. 2nd war flashed its rictus. Done with horses. Ironed unhealed fields. War barked. We came. Piano and flag every room. Shocked naked. Someone must kill these already-dead. * Then little wars: smoked mountains, blind jungle, tiny skirmish. Busy snakes in secret photos - postcards of … [Read more...]
