Kathleen Winter

Kathleen Winter is the author of I will not kick my friends (2018), winner of the Elixir Poetry Prize, and Nostalgia for the Criminal Past, which won the 2013 Texas Institute of Letters Bob Bush Memorial Award. Her poems have appeared in Tin House, New Statesman, Agni, New Republic, Cincinnati Review, and Yale Review. She was granted fellowships at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Dobie Paisano Ranch, Dora Maar House, James Merrill House, and Cill Rialaig.

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Meeting House at Cill Rialaig

Kathleen Winter  | 
Issue 68.1 Fall 2019

When you clean a place it begins to belong to you. Like sex, this is terrible unless you want it. Today I read a poet hedge there might be no bad sex. Who’s safe enough to hazard that guess? Use ash to rub smoke’s ghost off of windows, open both doors to let sea winds […]