Poems

KATRINA ROBERTS
Four Visual Poems

An ISLAND of TRASH THREE TIMES the SIZE of FRANCE
FOR WHOM AMONG US HAS NOT FELT HERSELF a CIPHER
OUR DIAGRAM of UBIQUITOUS SORROW
PROOF of GOODWILL’S ARMATURE

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Katrina Roberts is author of four books of poems: Underdog; Friendly Fire; The Quick; and How Late Desire Looks; and the chapbook Lace; as well as editor of the anthology: Because You Asked. Named finalist for the New Alchemy Award, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize, her poetry comics appear in places such as The Ilanot ReviewThe American Journal of Poetry, PermafrostRoot & StarLilac City Fairy Tales Vol IV, and in Evergreen: Fairy Tales, Essays, and Fables from the Dark Northwest. She draws and writes in Walla Walla, Washington, where she curates the Visiting Writers Reading Series at Whitman College, and co-runs the Walla Walla Distilling Company. (www.katrinaroberts.net)