Katherine Hastings
- For the English noblewomen see Katherine Hastings née Dudley, Countess of Huntingdon
- For Catherine Hastings née Pole, Countess of Huntingdon.
Katherine Hastings is an American Poet living in Northern California.
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[edit] Life
She earned her MFA in Writing from Vermont College[1] and serves as a contributing editor for Hunger Mountain: A Journal of Arts and Letters. Hastings grew up in San Francisco and currently lives in Sonoma County, California, where she founded and hosts the WordTemple Poetry Series, bringing well-established poets together with poets who have not yet published a book of poems. Poets who have read or are scheduled to read in the series include Jane Hirshfield, David St. John, David Meltzer, Diane DiPrima, August Kleinzahler, Ilya Kaminsky, Al Young, Michael McClure, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Kay Ryan and many others. Hastings hosts a radio program, also called WordTemple, on Santa Rosa KRCB 91 FM, an NPR affiliate.[2]
She has had poems published in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Comstock Review, Roque Dalton Redux (Cedar Hill Press), Rattle, Calyx, California Quarterly, Diner, Birmingham Arts Journal, Potpourri, New College Review and Parthenon West Review[3] as well as several books, listed below.[4]
Lawrence Ferlinghetti writes of her book Sidhe, "I have read and reread your SIDHE. Lovely...It's your veiled history." Poet and critic Jack Foley says: "Katherine Hastings' SIDHE (pronounced "she") is an illuminating and fanciful exploration of sexual and ethnic identity. It is also great fun. The poem's primary strength is its marvelous openness as ancestral Irish voices mingle suddenly with the voices of the street or with voices from the past. SIDHE is not a homily on how to live a life, but it is a brilliant enactment of how a life may be conceived. The poem posits a ritual of problematical growth in a San Francisco which now exists primarily in Katherine Hastings' imagination. The "Dark mother" who haunts the poem is simultaneously Ireland and the massive feminine figure (what Jung would have called an archetype) which constantly nudges this poet into the most varied of expressions. Call her Hastings' angel and—through the medium of this rich, gorgeous tapestry of a poem—our own."
[edit] Published works
- Fog and Light (Ahadada Reader 3, Ahadada Books 2011)
- Updraft (Finishing Line Press, 2010)
- Wolf Spider (dPress, 2005)[5]
- Sidhe (dPress, 2006)[6]
- Lonidier Rampant (The Small Change Series, WordTemple Press, 2007)
- Bird. Song. Knife. Heart. (The Small Change Series, WordTemple Press, 2008)
[edit] References
- ^ Tower Journal Directory of Poets > Katherine Hastings
- ^ Word Temple Poetry Series > About Katherine Hastings
- ^ Parthenon West Review > Summer 2004 > Any Wound by Katherine Hastings
- ^ Poets & Writers Directory of Writers > Katherine Hastings
- ^ dPress > "the stable" > Katherine Hastings
- ^ dPress > "the stable" > Katherine Hastings
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