Katha Pollitt | @kathapollitt

Polemicist, poet, feminist. ”Subject to Debate" columnist for The Nation. Author of numerous books including Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights and Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories (now a major motion picture). She tweets at @kathapollitt.

TPMCafe Book Club

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.
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About

About
Katha Pollitt writes the award-winning column “Subject to Debate” for The Nation magazine. Her latest book is Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights; she is also the author of two books of poetry and several collections of essays. She lives in New York City.

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"Subject to Debate" column

  • Latest Nation columns

The Mind-Body Problem: Poems

The Mind-Body Problem: Poems

"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, past Poet Laureate

Other books by Katha Pollitt

  • Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories (Essays)
  • Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time (Essays)
  • Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism (Essays)
  • Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture (Nation columns)
  • Antarctic Traveller (Poems)

Selected organizations to support

  • Katha's DonorsChoose page
  • American Civil Liberties Union
  • Bosnian Initiative Frankfurt
  • Canadian Harambee Education
  • Friends of Pine Ridge Reservation
  • Help Lesotho
  • National Network of Abortion Funds
  • Women for Afghan Women
  • Madre

Selected blogroll

  • Reproductive Health Reality Check
  • Michelle Obama Watch
  • Racialicious
  • Goods 4 Girls
  • Feminist Peace Network
  • The G Spot
  • Crooked Timber
  • Laila Lalami
  • Baghdad Burning
  • Christopher Hayes
  • Monocles Galore
  • Barbara Ehrenreich's blog
  • Pandagon
  • TPMCafe
  • The Garance
  • Abortion Clinic Days
  • Jenny Diski
  • Informed Comment
  • Echidne of the Snakes
  • Maud Newton
  • Feministing
  • Quick Study
  • Feministe
  • MajikThise
  • James Wolcott
  • Bitch Ph.D.
  • Emdashes
  • Alas, A Blog

Selected links to other work

  • "Is Abortion Bad?" An exchange with William Saletan (Slate)
  • Audio and poem: "In the Bulrushes" (Slate)
  • Audio: Pollitt reads five poems (NYT)
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