Katrina Vandenberg is the author of two books of poems, The Alphabet Not Unlike the World and Atlas, and co-author of the chapbook On Marriage. Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, The American Scholar, Post Road, Poets and Writers, and other magazines. She has received fellowships from the McKnight, Bush, and Fulbright Foundations; been a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference; and held residencies at the Amy Clampitt House, the Poetry Center of Chicago, and the MacDowell Colony. She is the poetry editor of Water~Stone Review and a professor in The Creative Writing Programs at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Katrina Vandenberg

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Twelve Poetry Recommendations for Black History Month
Camille Dungy and poet friends are back with another list of stellar recommended reading. From new titles to seminal classics, you’ll want to check out these environmentally-engaged poetry collections by Continue reading
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On Cold-Weather Vegetables
Gnarled sweet potatoes, tips curling like the feet of witches. Hubbard squashes, big enough to sit on, warty, blue. Mushrooms flaring their gills. Back in July, the tomatoes and corn the Continue reading
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Cherry Season
1. MY MOTHER’S MOTHER kept a set of painted wooden nesting dolls on top of her television. When I was small and went to her house, I would take the set Continue reading
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Essence of Lavender
(Editor’s Note: Katrina Vandenberg will be included in a new Orion book, “The Nature of Love,” a collection of love stories from over two dozen writers, arriving in time for Valentine’s Continue reading
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In Motion
WHEN I RETURNED to the United States after living for a year in the Netherlands, I returned to a gloriously foreign country in Lawrence, Kansas. The slant of light felt exceptionally Continue reading
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Earthworms
It is raining again this morning, and I am remembering it rained then, too, the summer morning things almost came to be. We lay crosswise on the bed. The curtains grazed Continue reading
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Nails
I haven’t told you yet how haunted I felt when I saw the Harkin store. It stands alone, its wide porch overlooking the Minnesota River, on a deserted stretch of county Continue reading
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Awesome Activism
It’s not your mama’s activism: at noon EST, December 17, 2007, hundreds of young people from all over the U.S. and as far away as Norway, Australia, and Peru simultaneously uploaded Continue reading