9/29/11 Rosh Hashana can be loosely translated as “head of the year.” I’m working here at the wompus today, on the Jewish New Year, and if there is any truth to the notion that where you place your energy at... Read More

9/15/11 Chris Howey’s book launch Monday night at Dobama Theater was so much fun. Forty or fifty people turned out to support and celebrate her new collection, If You Should Find Yourself Submerged In a Pond Under Ice. Ever the... Read More

Duotrope does not list Kattywompus Press. If you’re one of the many writers who utilize their site for submissions, you won’t find us. I’d submit a listing, but Duotrope does not include in publications listings any publisher that charges the... Read More

8/11/11 I don’t know anybody who believes we live in a post-racial society. Ariana Huffington’s got all the usual statistics to contradict that notion of post-discriminatory life, in the blog where she kicks off a new section of the Huff... Read More

8/7/11 Only a few feet of air between me and Bob Dylan last night at Nautica Pavillion. Before Dylan and his five-man band took the stage, Leon Russell played a set of rock and roll standards with plenty of blues.... Read More

7/25/11 After a week roving New England, the wompus is in workshop at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, hip deep in my own manuscript and those of my workshop-mates. Here’s something I wrote as I prepared. ~ ~ ~... Read More

7/13/11 Check out Meet the Press in Best American Poetry’s blog series, to read Karen Schubert’s interview of me. If you’re not familiar with this site, you have a lot of good blog-reading in store: http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2011/07/meet-the-press-kattywompus.html A couple weeks ago... Read More

The secret to soup stock: simmer forever. The more concentrated the better. Titles are like that. The more concentrated, the more intense the flavor, the better. Of course, the right ingredients, fresh ingredients, are also key. Gregory Orr’s Concerning the... Read More

6/24/11 Some things get done when they must come hell or high water. Yesterday I dragged a chair up from the basement. It’s an ungainly one-woman carry, a boxy PVC frame with soft outdoor cushions. It’s one of six for... Read More

Have you ever used needle and thread to re-affix a button, tack up a hem, pull back together a seam that had unraveled? We started hand-stitching books last year and we love the careful, detailed, tactile process of making these... Read More