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Katharine Whitcomb

Katharine Whitcomb is the author of five collections of poetry, including Habitats, published in January 2024 from Poetry NW Editions, Saints of South Dakota & Other Poems, which won the Bluestem Award, and The Daughter’s Almanac, which won the Backwaters Prize, chosen by Patricia Smith. Her writing awards include a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford. She lives in northern Vermont.

Fall :: Viburnum

Before leaves lose their green, the season sighs a beat / in September, a pause, & once-ferocious weeds / die back. . . .

Fall :: Bruegel Yellow

All the leaves went yellow the year it flooded, / scraps spinning away from my leaf blower, /
the maples shocked sulphur & ochre, no reds / that year, all yellows.