Kathryn Smith

Kathryn Smith’s most recent poetry collection, Self-Portrait with Cephalopod, was published by Milkweed Editions in 2021 and won the Jake Adam York Prize; it was also a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. Her poems and visual poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Copper Nickel, Ninth Letter, Fugue, the Gettysburg Review, RHINO, Brink, and elsewhere.

Map – Issue 33

Which Way to the Ocean?

I think of collages as poems. Both take existing elements—images, language—and piece them together in new ways.