https://www.kathrynsmithpoetry.com/home daily 1.0 2024-01-08 https://www.kathrynsmithpoetry.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-09-15 https://www.kathrynsmithpoetry.com/about daily 0.75 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4538bd7c061424ba9d45cc/1598914353426-ETTTKO8JTOVG73J454TB/Kathryn+Smith+photo+credit+Dean+Davis.jpg about photo by Dean Davis https://www.kathrynsmithpoetry.com/visual-art daily 0.75 2022-12-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4538bd7c061424ba9d45cc/1600467659178-BY296P825BDWSXPZ8113/excavate%2Bintegrate%2Bsmith.jpg visual art - “excavate/integrate,” 2018 Plastic ants exhume the pages cut from a carved book, giving a sense of the natural world taking over the human constructs of order and language. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4538bd7c061424ba9d45cc/1600286516183-9EYY9NJT5KZYEZX2GA45/guns%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bheather.jpg visual art - “Guns in the Heather,” 2016 In what’s cut away and what’s left behind, this piece explores how language shapes us and the world we inhabit, how we allow language to manipulate our view of the world, and how we use language both to create and to destroy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4538bd7c061424ba9d45cc/1600281832463-TZZZC8O45C9KHFU2ZNAG/true+paths.jpg visual art - “True Paths,” 2018 Collage has the ability to walk the line between poetry and visual art, using both words and images to create a lyric or tell a story. https://www.kathrynsmithpoetry.com/poetry daily 0.75 2025-07-08 https://www.kathrynsmithpoetry.com/poetry/book-of-exodus monthly 0.5 2025-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4538bd7c061424ba9d45cc/1598912178193-7LMU5808D480K4OWCT68/Exodus+cover.jpg poetry - Book of Exodus In language poet Laurie Lamon calls “both spare and sumptuous,” Book of Exodus narrates the imagined experiences of the Lykov family, who lived for 40 years in the Russian taiga, utterly isolated from society. Smith’s debut collection examines wilderness, loneliness, and faith in poems that author Nance Van Winckel says “allow entry, or re-entry, to primal selves, we who once roamed a forest, ate of its bounty, and fought its beasts. And yes, in the best sense, the book also seems—as a marvelous abecedarian poem’s title proclaims—a ‘Rehearsal for the Apocalypse.’” https://www.kathrynsmithpoetry.com/poetry/self-portrait-with-cephalopod monthly 0.5 2020-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4538bd7c061424ba9d45cc/1598907849392-XSVYZBYX1K9MLKGHYBY7/Self-Portrait+cover.png poetry - Self-Portrait with Cephalopod - Winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, selected by francine j. harris Environmental collapse. The betrayals and alliances of the animal world. A father who works in a timber mill. The celebrities in our feeds, the stories we tell ourselves. Loss, never-ending loss. In Self-Portrait with Cephalopod, Kathryn Smith offers observations and anxieties, prophecies and prayers, darkness and light—but never false hope. Instead, she incises our vanities and our hypocrisies, “the bloody hand holding back / the skin,” revealing “the world’s inner workings, / rubbery and caught between the teeth.” These are the poems of someone who feels her and our failings in the viscera, in the bones, and who bears witness to that pain on the page. Self-Portrait with Cephalopod is an urgent and necessary collection about living in this precarious moment, meditative and resolutely unsentimental. https://www.kathrynsmithpoetry.com/poetry/chosen-companions-of-the-goblin monthly 0.5 2020-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4538bd7c061424ba9d45cc/1598910675612-1CXEJG44WHKYDRM7GFA9/book%2Bcover%2B1.jpg poetry - Chosen Companions of the Goblin - Winner of the Open Country Press Chapbook Competition, selected by Heather Cahoon Drawing on the lives of the Fox Sisters, whose work spurred the American Spiritualism Movement of the late 19th century, Chosen Companions of the Goblin “echo(es) the era of revivalist evangelical movements and the fracturing of the Protestant moral landscape into new denominations and ways of believing,” says contest judge Heather Cahoon. Using documentary poetics, erasure, list poems, and persona, the poems reflect on “the real and metaphorical silencing of women” as they explore a world where these young sisters “managed to amplify their voice in a time when women were largely without one.”