Pollitt's Poetry Featured on The Writer's Almanac With Garrison Keillor

"What I Understood," from The Mind-Body Problem, is featured on the homepage of The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor. Read it here.

New Nation Column: Kristof's Challenge

Read Pollitt's latest Subject to Debate column, a review of Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's Half the Sky.

Highbrow + Brilliant: Katha Pollitt's Elegantly Provocative Poetry

New York Magazine gives Katha Pollitt the highest rating possible -- highbrow and brilliant -- for The Mind-Body Problem in this week's Approval Matrix.

"It's the mark of a good poem when you absolutely must pull it out of your bag in the middle of the street and start reading out loud to a friend."

Karen Pittelman gave The Mind-Body Problem an enthusiastic review on Feministing. Check it out.

Excellent Review of The Mind-Body Problem on Powell's Books

From Powells.com:

In The Mind-Body Problem, Katha Pollitt takes the ordinary events of life-her own and others'-and turns them into brilliant, poignant, and often funny poems that are full of surprises and originality. Pollitt's imagination is stirred by conflict and juxtaposition, by the contrast (but also the connection) between logic and feeling, between the real and the transcendent, between our outer and inner selves: Jane Austen slides her manuscript under her blotter, bewildered young mothers chat politely on the playground, the simple lines of a Chinese bowl in a thrift store remind the poet of the only apparent simplicities of her childhood. The title poem hilariously and ruefully depicts the friction between passion and repression (Perhaps / my body would have liked to make some of our dates, / to come home at four in the morning and answer my scowl / with 'None of your business ' ). In a sequence of nine poems, Pollitt turns to the Bible for inspiration, transforming some of the oldest tales of Western civilization into subversive modern parables: What if Adam and Eve couldn't wait to leave Eden? What if God needs us more than we need him?

With these moving, vivid, and utterly distinctive poems, Katha Pollitt reminds us that poetry can be both profound and accessible, and reconfirms her standing in the first rank of modern American poets.

The Best American Poetry: Katha Pollitt

Pollitt was invited to guest blog for The Best American Poetry website. Read her musings on the attributes of a poem read aloud versus one read silently on a page, and find out who she thinks about when she writes.

New Nation Column: The Female Gourmet

Read Pollitt's take on the film Julie & Julia in her latest Nation column.