Katharine Whitcomb is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, including Habitats, published in January 2024 by Poetry NW Editions in the Possession Sound Series, Saints of South Dakota & Other Poems, which won the Bluestem Award, chosen by Lucia Perillo, and The Daughter's Almanac, which won the Backwaters Prize, chosen by Patricia Smith. She has published two poetry chapbooks and a book of faux self-help/art criticism, titled The Art Courage Program. She was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University and is the recipient of fellowships in the U.S. and Europe from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MacDowell, Yaddo, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, The Marble House Project, the AWP Poetry Fellowship to the Prague Summer Seminars, and elsewhere. Her work has been awarded the Grolier Poetry Prize, a Loft-McKnight Award, and the Nebraska Review Award in Poetry. Her poems and prose have been published in The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Bennington Review, Tupelo Quarterly, On the Seawall, Narrative, Alaska Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review, The Missouri Review, New England Review, terrain.org, and many other journals and anthologies, and her poetry has been translated into and published in Spanish and Hungarian. She is a Distinguished Professor at Central Washington University and makes her home in northern

Other poems by Katharine Whitcomb in Verse Daily:
February 1, 2016:   "Departed Cordelia" "My father said, You are a spirit. Where did you die?..."
September 1, 2008:   "Airplanes" "especially circling a city before landing at night..."

Other poems on the web by Katharine Whitcomb:
Three poems
"Letter to America"
"The Hanged Man"
"A Poem Without a Boar"
"After Reading Basho, I Remember the Rain"
"Crossing to Friday Harbor"

Katharine Whitcomb's Website.

Katharine Whitcomb on Twitter.

About Habitats:

"Through these lyrically precise, formally adept poems, Katharine Whitcomb journeys and earns a singular vision, where a cypher becomes a threshold to discovery, and any truly lived moment uncovers an unforgettable world."
—Arthur Sze

"In Habitats, Katharine Whitcomb gives voice to a human consciousness that feels the world with profound intensity, and then transforms that feeling into rigorous, heightened language. . . . A moving, memorable, important book from a poet at the height of her powers."
—Mark Wunderlich

"Habitats is a brave and perceptive book, walking the reader through the personal that is also collective. . . . A book of rooms-poems-as big as all life."
—Jesse Lee Kercheval