Celebrate poet and Cuyahoga Falls native, Katie Berta’s new poetry collection “retribution forthcoming.”
Join us for a special reading with poet Katie Berta to celebrate her new debut poetry collection, “retribution forthcoming.” Originally from Cuyahoga Falls, Katie is the current managing editor of “The Iowa Review” and teaches creative writing at Oberlin College.
Book description: In the lineage of New York School poets like Alice Notley and Bernadette Mayer, “retribution forthcoming” does its exploratory work through narrative and lyric modes, by simile and catalogue. By turns oblique and direct, Katie Berta’s poems look vulnerably and honestly at sexual coercion and the psychological fallout of assault. These poems move through academic, public, and domestic spaces—and through the domain of memory—investigating the ways consumerist society reinforces and reifies gender conformity and performativity. The world of these poems and their trauma narrative is woven through and deepened by the heartful speaker’s sense of humor and eagerness to love and trust.
Bio: Katie Berta’s debut poetry collection, retribution forthcoming, won the Hollis Summers Prize and was published by Ohio University Press in March. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in “Ploughshares,” “The Cincinnati Review,” “The Yale Review,” “Colorado Review,” “Denver Quarterly,” “Southeast Review,” and “Sixth Finch,” among other magazines. She has received residencies from Millay Arts, Ragdale, and The Hambidge Center, fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, and an Iowa Review Award. She teaches creative writing at Oberlin College. Registration is recommended.
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