The Wild Emptiness

 

Kathryn Smith’s most recent poetry collection, Self-Portrait with Cephalopod (Milkweed Editions, 2021), won the Jake Adam York Prize and was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. Her poems and visual poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Copper Nickel, Poetry Northwest, Ninth Letter, Gettysburg Review, RHINO, Brink, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. She lives in Spokane, WA.