Katy Didden is the author of The Glacier’s Wake, which won the Lena Miles Wever-Todd prize, and was published by Pleiades Press (2013). She earned a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Missouri, and she has published poems in many journals including Ecotone, Southern Indiana Review, 32 Poems, and The Spoon River Poetry Review. A former Hodder fellow at Princeton University, she is currently an Assistant Professor at Ball State University.
Nature's Nature
May/June 2017
From “The Lava on Iceland”
Meteors petrify me— dead matter vanished into the scantiest of tracks: a white flare, eerily anonymous. I’m earths aorta, I thrum against erosion. O spur of the alien cosmos […]
Poetry
Summer 2011
The Model Composure of the Dead
Pale-brown doves stutter-whoop in the pines—the morning light casts long shadows on the stones of this miniature city. Groundsmen in gray coveralls scrub select mausoleums, then sit on concrete benches […]
Poetry
Summer 2011
The Soldier on Routine
We are living with the young Christ in the Green Zone. Even we who are not He suffer hands tugging our hems, though our minds select the bodies we see. […]
May/June 2017
From The Lava on Iceland
Four of Katy Didden’s erasures appear in the May/June 2017 issue of the Kenyon Review. We are pleased to present three more of her erasures here on our website. Images […]
Fall 2014
Untamed Elegy: A Review of Ellen Bryant Voigt’s Headwaters
Nearly every poem in Ellen Bryant Voigt’s earlier collections has something in common: it ends with a period.
The Kenyon Review Credos
“Listen Now Again”: A Credo in Echoes
The Kenyon Review Credos My love of poetry started with Shakespeare’s sonnets. When I was in college, I wrote a paper on poetic devices, and I have a vivid memory […]
Katy Didden
Katy Didden is the author of The Glacier’s Wake (Pleiades Press, 2013). She earned a PhD in English and creative writing from the University of Missouri. A former Hodder Fellow […]