Three Poems
Read the poems, "Job," "Old," and "Silent Letter," published in the current online issue of Granta.
Read the poems, "Job," "Old," and "Silent Letter," published in the current online issue of Granta.
Granta's Adam Gopnick sat down with Katha Pollitt to talk about the writing process of poetry versus that of political writing. Read the interview online.
In this humorous snippet, Pollitt confesses to Double X about what she wanted to be when she grew up.
Double X asked Pollitt how she would compare Betty Freidan's "problem that had no name" of 1963 to the subtle misogyny of today. Read her response here.
Read Pollitt's latest Nation column here, Better Living Through Torture.
Buy Katha Pollitt’s acclaimed collection of poetry,
THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM
“It’s awfully good to have such a great-hearted poet as Katha Pollitt take on mortality’s darkest themes. Again and again she finds a human-sized crack of light and squeezes us through with her.”—Kay Ryan, United States Poet Laureate
Katha Pollitt writes the award-winning column, “Subject to Debate,” for The Nation magazine. She is also the author of two books of poetry and several collections of essays. Pollitt currently lives in Berlin, where she is working on a new book.