Katha Pollitt will be reading with Howard Norman next Thursday, July 2nd, at the New York State Writers Institute at Skidmore College, 8 PM. Read more about the exciting event here.
Other upcoming appearances:
July 7 -- Book Court, 163 Court Street, Brooklyn -- 7 pm WINE!
July 16 -- Barnes and Noble, 2289 Broadway @ 82nd Street, Manhattan -- 7 pm
Read Pollitt's latest Nation column, "Muslim Women's Rights, Continued."
"The Expulsion," Pollitt's poem about Eden from The Mind-Body Problem , is featured in The Washington Post.
About the inspiration for this poem, Pollitt writes:
The Garden of Eden -- a nice place to visit, perhaps, but would you have wanted to live there? Wouldn't it have been a little boring? No conflict, no surprise, no urgency, no change, no needs. In my poem, everyone is glad to be rid of Paradise, so timeless and static and perfect. Now, Adam and Eve will get to have complex, difficult relations full of blame and seduction, like real men and women; the animals will be real animals, alien beings in nature, not our toys and servants; and God, who exists outside of time, will enjoy himself watching human beings spin out their endless tragicomic story. As Milton says of his Adam and Eve at the end of "Paradise Lost," "The world was all before them."
Will they mess it up? Probably.
Pollitt is Poetry Daily's featured poet. The poem "Rereading Jane Austen's Novels" is excerpted from The Mind-Body Problem.
Read Donna Seaman's excellent review of The Mind-Body Problem from Booklist.
Pollitt recently sat down with Matthea Harvey to talk about her new collection of poems, The Mind-Body Problem. Listen to the podcast here.
Pollitt reacts to the murder of Dr. Tiller and the future of abortion rights: Dr. George Tiller, 1941-2009.
Pollitt recently contributed to two book club discussions on TPMcafe.
Read her responses to Michelle Goldberg's newest book, The Means of Reproduction and Jessica Valenti's The Purity Myth.
Read about Pollitt's take on intergenerational feminist conflicts in her most recent column.
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.
