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Kathleen Ossip

Kathleen Ossip is the author of The Do-Over (2015), The Cold War (2011), The Search Engine (2002), and Cinephrastics, a chapbook of movie poems. She is a 2016-2017 Radcliffe Fellow and the editor of the poetry review website SCOUT.

Poem to Poem (2) – conversation with Kathleen Ossip

This is the second part of Amy and Kathleen’s conversation: you can read the first part here. Following the success of our inaugural Poem to Poem, for our second feature in the series we invited Amy Key and Kathleen Ossip to hold a transatlantic conversation. The first step in putting together a Poe...

Poem to Poem (1) – conversation with Amy Key

This is the first part of Amy and Kathleen’s conversation: you can read the second part here. Following the success of our inaugural Poem to Poem, for our second feature in the series we invited Amy Key and Kathleen Ossip to hold a transatlantic conversation. The first step in putting together a Po...

To the Poet Who After My Reading Said ‘Your Poems Are Good. Eccentric, But Good.’ by Kathleen Ossip

Imagine that you, at eighteen, / in Paris for the first time with / all your loving ideals about / penises intact, in your new / mini-trenchcoat and smelling the / smell of garlic and unfiltered / smoke and assaultive coffee, were / approached from behind. Imagine / un Français, bald...