Katherine Reed

2024 Spring Session II

I am Katherine Reed, a poet of no renown from the Canadian prairies.

If you read my work as a whole you’ll find honesty in its guts, silliness introduced to insight, and deep delight with its eyes wide open. Stylistically rooted in observation, you’ll find most poems to be fairly short and no stranger to rhythm or rhyme. Contentwise I focus on nature, painful realities, spiritual matters, and patchwork bits taken from everyday corners of lived reality. 

Poems occasionally invade against my will but habitually knock insistently at the doors of my brain as I participate in life and community.  

I draw skillfully. Pencil is my first love but coloured charcoal and oil pastels are welcome additions to the party. Visual art has been a consistent source of personal joy.