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Poet. Debut chapbook Big Man (Chestnut Review, 2025) More at katiekemplepoetry.com
Grateful to New Verse News for curating this pocket sized poem
June 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Great time reading & signing Big Man at Barnes & Noble, Carmel Mountain.
June 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
April 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
“The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” by Randall Jarrell #nationalpoetrymonth #poetrymonth2025 #poetry #randalljarrell
April 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
“One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop. Never get tired of this one 💙 #poetrymonth2025 #nationalpoetrymonth #elizabethbishop
April 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
“The Bean Eaters” by Gwendolyn Brooks #poetrymonth2025 #gwendolynbrooks #nationalpoetrymonth
April 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
A little Walt Whitman seems right for today. #waltwhi
April 5, 2025 at 11:32 PM
“A Coney Island of the Mind” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (poem 14) #poetrymonth2025 #poetry #lawrenceferlinghetti
April 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
“I’m Nobody” by Emily Dickinson #poetrymonth2025 #emilydickinson
April 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
“Hair Poem” by Bill Knott from the newly re-released classic The Naomi Poems: Corpse and Beans (Black Ocean, 2024) #nationalpoetrymonth2025 #poetrymonth2025 #BillKnottPoetry
April 2, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Happy Poetry Month! “First Fig” by Edna St. Vincent Millay 🔥🔥 #ednastvincentmillay #firstfig #nationalpoetrymonth
April 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Loved seeing @slowdownshow.org at the @laist.com last week. Poems, games, trivia. The best possible intersection of my two passions: poetry + public radio 📚📻💕
March 30, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Met the amazing Denise Duhamel last week - I’ve been reading her books for 25+ yrs and thrilled to read her latest releases. 💜🤩
March 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The Pinch printed one of my favorite poems on special bookmarks for #AWP25 Here is it modeled by someone else’s gorgeous hand 😍 @pinchjournal.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I ❤️ Libraries. Thrilled to be reading at LA Central Library Thu Mar 27 @ 6pm w/ the crew from @chestnutreview.bsky.social #AWP25
March 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Loved this book! A must for anyone looking to forge an authentic, creative path .. @amandahirsch.bsky.social www.amandahirsch.com/improvising-...
March 19, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Proof looks good! Teeny tiny cover reveal. Books on order for #AWP Stop by the Chestnut Review booth to say hello… ❤️
March 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Received this reply from WaPo re: Opinion page coup. #billionairebubble
February 26, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Final edits for Big Man poems approved! Can’t wait to share this collection of poems in memory of my father w/ you all. Out w/ Chestnut Review (March 2025) @chestnutreview.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Making shadow puppets @ the Palm Springs art museum
February 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Gasped & leapt out of my car to take this pic last night. A magic cloud punctuated by Venus
February 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
“A work of art is useless as a flower is useless. A flower blossoms for its own joy. We gain a moment of joy by looking at it.” ⁠Oscar Wilde tapping me on the shoulder lately (also, fun: scroll thru your photos until you find your last pic of a flower… (Nov 17, 2024)
February 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Pulled this teeny edition of Sonnets from the Portuguese off my shelf today & discovered notes from my 20s 💗 #poetry #lovepoems
February 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Love this “Sonnet for the Chickens” by Tom Healy on Poets.org
January 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Out w/ the old, in w/ the new 5yr diary. Something about the brevity of these keeps me keeping them.
January 10, 2025 at 6:29 AM