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Parting Shots of 2025
Some Writing Habits that Worked For Me (a list!), Publishing Opportunities, Fallen Trees, A Look Back and A Look Ahead! Yes, it is wintering in a much too serious way here in far northern Vermont! I mean, this year was pretty broadly harrowing anyway, thus full-on snowblower weather seems just rude. The snowblower has been…
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Frida’s Professorial Credentials: Updates from the Writing Life, Some Publishing Opportunities, and Scenes from Frida’s Other House in CDMX!
Here we are at the very last gasp of November and it feels like it — outside my office window the day is gray and the air swirls with snowflakes. Not unusual for the borderlands between Vermont and Quebec! We are keeping the wood stove cranked up. On the poetry writing front, this month had…
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Digging Out, Digging In
Some Updates after the Northern Winter We’ve gotten a lot of snow this winter in Vermont and Quebec, record amounts. Lake Champlain is frozen solid, its surface deep with drifted snow. When we snowshoed on it, sinking into feet of powdery snow, the open sky and white plain of the lake stretched around us. It…
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Remembering My Father –“After-Apple-Picking” from HABITATS
In my last post, I was celebrating the generous review of Habitats, my new poetry collection, that is featured in the latest issue of Tupelo Quarterly. The kind reviewer, Robert Dunsdon, spent some time discussing the poem, “After Apple-Picking,” which I wrote to honor my late father, Richard O. Whitcomb. “After Apple-Picking” is of course…
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Letter from The Old Library at Trinity College, Dublin
A Visit to the Long Room A little over a week ago, we were in Ireland, and my husband and I visited The Old Library at Dublin’s Trinity College, one of the oldest and most impressive libraries in the world. The main gallery of the Old Library is the Long Room, which is approx.…
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Review of HABITATS on tweetspeakpoetry.com
Poets and Poems: Katharine Whitcomb and “Habitats” By Glynn Young Leave a Comment Katharine Whitcomb frames a life with forests, hotels, and dreams Welcome to Habitats, Katharine Whitcomb’s newest collection of poetry. You are entering a collection much as you would enter a large house — say, an old three-story house that seems new until you walk through the rooms.…
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Interview with me on Lisa Haselton’s Reviews & Interviews Blog!
https://katharinewhitcomb.substack.com/i/146799032/interview-with-poet-katharine-whitcomb
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A Late Letter from Umbria:Poetry & Piero della Francesca Workshop
In March I had the chance to participate in a short workshop in the region of Umbria in Italy — under the auspices of Civitella Rainieri—with poet Mark Wunderlich and art historian Dana Prescott. It was remarkable to travel with a small group of artists and writers to see frescoes and altarpieces in small museums,…
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Thinking With My Heart
Yesterday my husband Larry and I drove through the winter rain to attend a memorial service for our neighbor, Maria. Her husband had invited us to the service two weeks earlier, striding across our lawn to us, sorrow filling his face. We sat in a row of chairs next to other neighbors : the Ukrainian-Canadian…
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Full Circle for The Daughter’s Almanac
Manuscripts in progress are laid out on the desk. Moleskine journal is being filled. The first blog entry in over a year attempted. Today I brought my new book, The Daughter’s Almanac, as a gift for the library at La Muse — a singular event in my life– because I wrote some of the poems…