The Lives of Writers

Katherine Indermaur [Guest host: Sara Rauch]

Episode Summary

Guest host Sara Rauch talks with Katherine Indermaur about life changing with a ten-month-old, poetry and sound, editing for Sugar House Review, poetry on the page, her book I|I, the page as mirror, the sheffer stroke, the mirror in history, the mirror in her life, implicating the reader, going from chapbook to full-length, the ways we talk about ourselves, and more.

Episode Notes

Guest host Sara Rauch talks with Katherine Indermaur about life changing with a ten-month-old, poetry and sound, editing for Sugar House Review, poetry on the page, her book I|I, the page as mirror, the sheffer stroke, the mirror in history, the mirror in her life, implicating the reader, going from chapbook to full-length, the ways we talk about ourselves, and more.

Katherine Indermaur’s first full-length book, I|I (Seneca Review Books, 2022), was selected as the winner of the 2022 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize by Kazim Ali and as the winner of the 2023 Colorado Book Award. Katherine is also the author of two chapbooks, Facing the Mirror: An Essay (Coast|noCoast, 2020) and Pulse (Ghost City Press, 2018).

Podcast theme: DJ Garlik & Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.