Say the empties go out. A girl in the window wavers. Say the old dog rattles attached to the back of the yard, and here comes the holy ice-cream truck, that rhyme & cling paused where children spin. And say, the empties gone out (you’ve rinsed the bottles, the mouth of each bottle) and the […]
Come, let’s go in. The ticket-taker has shyly grinned and it’s almost time, Lovely One. Let’s go in. The wind tonight’s too wild. The sky too deep, too thin. Already it’s time. The lights have dimmed. Come, Loveliest. Let’s go in and know these bodies we do not have to own, passing quietly as dreams, […]
Kate Northrop, author of Back Through Interruption and the forthcoming Things Are Disappearing Here, discusses the genesis of her poems, The Female Scarecrow, Slant and Far Across the Sea, and The Place Above the River.
Kate Northrop, author of Back Through Interruption and the forthcoming Things Are Disappearing Here, talks about how she became interested in poetry.
Kate Northrop, author of Back Through Interruption and the forthcoming Things Are Disappearing Here, offers some advice to students and young writers.