Reading at the Enoch Pratt Library

Reading at the Enoch Pratt Library

Recent work in anthologies

“never mind the avalanche” in the anthology This Is What America Looks Like, Washington Writers’ Publishing House   https://www.washingtonwriters.org/

 "The Erotic Has No Use," "The Dirty Work of Quarters," and "How Light Bends at the Exxon" in The Poetry of Capital, Voices from Twenty-First-Century America,
Edited by Benjamin S. Grossberg and Clare Rossini 
https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5723.htm

Recent print publications

"A day like crowing" and "Only the currents, the stars to guide us" in Tinfish

“the rose sutra” and “without” in Arts & Letters

“Home Improvement” in Artemis Journal

“stele” in The Margins

"Oh, brother, where art thou?" in Writers Resist

"thanks, and godspeed" and "sometime before long he'd been here" in Aji Magazine

 Recent online publications

“rid this house of mirrors" in West Trestle Review

https://www.westtrestlereview.com/west_trestle_kathleen_hellen.html

"kuchisabishii" in Okay Donkey

https://okaydonkeymag.com/?fbclid=IwAR34Tb8JEvxxDt_7_EzTczk79TDhFPPgRb8_sLJFRkeRFyxqjlPrLAWhISA

“last night I read the late T'ang poet” in Bracken

https://www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-viii/last-night-i-read-the-late-tang-poet-by-kathleen-hellen

"run aground sometimes ashore" in Josephine Quarterly, Spring

https://www.josephinequarterly.com/kathleen-hellen

“haint” in Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts

https://en.calameo.com/read/0064651462f9f5bb7e3b4

“HURRY UP PLEASE IT’S TIME” in Book of Matches, issue 2, Spring

https://online.fliphtml5.com/qoqiq/yrpq/#p=38

“hidden in the layers” in Not Very Quiet

https://not-very-quiet.com/2021/03/14/hidden-in-the-layers/

“trigger rhymes w/” in Superstition Review

https://superstitionreview.asu.edu/issue26/poetry/kathleenhellen

Selected archive of online publications

“In this earthly Garden,” “Who, Me:’ and “Nanking is My Mother”
“Orchid”
“Common” 
“In the Between” 
“After the Storm” 
“Glacier” 
“As If It Were a Child” 
“Tonight I Am the News” 
“On Stones” (audio)
“Field Guide to the Dishes” 
“Red Room” 
“Continuously Arriving” 
“Autumnal” 
“Prologue”
“Every Snakes Needs a Place to Hide” 
“Shimmer” (audio)
“Orphan”
“Wages” 
“Chainsaw Artist” 
“Notches”
“Late Addiction”
“Fear, Desire—Feathers That Fly”
“Determined by the Underside” 
“A Congress of Monsters”
“The Black Ops of Pop” 
“If My Father Had Died,” “Skin Remembers,” and “Doll”
“Dog-Sisters” 
“Love Misdemeanors”
“Reprise”
“How It Is”
“The Fire Sermon: Follansbee Coke Plant”
“Ghostwalk”
“Headlights on the Bottom-Feeders” and “They Remembered the Nightgown I Wore”
“Analect of the Fly” and “Strays”
“Incident at Myth’s End,” “Aubade,” “The Great Tortoise of Ray’s Sports Tavern,” and “Matters and Mask”
“You, Thief” and “The House Belonged to Echoes”

 

LYRIC ESSAYS

“Signs” 

 

STORIES

“The Fifth Way of Wearing Vermillion”
“The Change”

 

VIDEO

"Congress of Monsters"

 

PODCASTS

Writers LIVE! Pratt Podcasts - The Girl Who Loved Mothra
Writers LIVE!
Pratt Podcasts - Sue Ellen Thompson and Kathleen Hellen

 

PRIZE POEMS

“Everyday Halloween” 
“Nine Circles” 

“pink ballerinas” Pen + Brush in Print nominated for Pushcart

“the candle that I am, the vessel” Your Impossible Voice nominated for Pushcart

 

REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS

The Jet Fuel Review Blog - “A Month of Sundays”

Poetry and Power - An Interview with Kathleen Hellen
Smokelong Quarterly - Smoking With Kathleen Hellen
Connotation Press: An Online Artifact - “Web at the Center of the World,” “From the Metro,” “A Monarch of the Undiscovered Countries,” “If,” and “Goodnight, Irene”