Katie Ford (poet)

Katie Ford is an American poet.

Life

She graduated from Harvard University’s Divinity School, and of University of Iowa’s creative writing program. Her poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Partisan Review, Seneca Review, Poets & Writers, American Literary Review and Pleiades. She is poetry editor of the New Orleans Review, and has taught at Loyola University New Orleans, Reed College, Franklin and Marshall College and now at the University of California, Riverside ^[1]

She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the novelist Josh Emmons. She taught at Loyola University New Orleans previously.^[2]

Bibliography

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Poetry

Collections

• Ford, Katie (2002). Deposition. 
• — (2007). Storm. Marick Press. 
• — (2008). Colosseum. Graywolf Press. 

Poems

• "Koi". Poets.org. 
• "It's Late Here How Light Is Late Once You've Fallen; Elegy to the Last Breath". Postroad Magazine (Boston College). Fall–Winter 2002. 
• "Rarely". American Poetry Review (Boston College). May 2008. 

Essays and reporting

• ""Visibility is Poor": Elizabeth Bishop's Obsessive Imagery and Mystical Unsaying". Poets.org. 

Awards

• Lannan Foundation Fellowship
• grants from the Academy of American Poets and the PEN American Center

Reviews

It’s difficult to find poetry as rich in lyrical power as that of Katie Ford—and this time around she has chosen a subject that readily lends itself to her vividly detailed, forcefully compelling voice. Colosseum (Graywolf Press) reflects on ancient ruins, war-ravaged lands, and such natural disasters as Hurricane Katrina and its catastrophic impact.^[3]

References

External links

• "Interview with Poet Katie Ford", I Go Searching For Music, Jesse Nathan, sfstation, May 30, 2008
• "Repossessing Virtue: Katie Ford on Poetry, Katrina, and Wasting One’s Life", Speaking of Faith, Krista Tippett, February 14, 2009, American Public Media