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.

Wislawa Szymborska, 1923–2012

Remembrance: Wislawa Szymborska, 1923-2012
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest
Newer Post Older Post Home

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.

Latest tweets

Tweets by @KathaPollitt

"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)
© Katha Pollitt, 2016. Simple theme. Powered by Blogger.