Katherine Soniat

Katherine Soniat’s ninth book Starfish Wash-up came out (2023) from Etruscan Press. Polishing the Glass Storm from Louisiana State University (2022) Bright Stranger was published by LSU Press (2016). The Goodbye Animals was awarded the 2014 Turtle Island Chapbook Award. A Shared Life won the Iowa Poetry Prize and The Swing Girl (LSU Press) was selected as Best Collection of 2011 by the North Carolina Poetry Council. Poems have appeared in the Denver Quarterly, Women’s Review of Books, Iowa Review, Poetry, Superstition Review, and The Nation, among others. These poems are from her newly completed New & Selected Poems:Authority(1984-2024)—this book is looking for a good home.

  • Instinct

    No matter,              nothing could help me make sense
  • Two Poems

    Deer sniff red November
  • Aqua and Violet

    Childlike ones don’t tattle on the choice of stepfathers.
  • Strange     that Penelope

    does not question or pray in a selfish manner