online poetry course begins January 15

The Winter 2025 session of “You Can Poem It All” is now open for registration, a seven-week online poetry course beginning January 15 – details and registration at this link.

YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL book launches + readings

Kathleen’s debut poetry collection, YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL, is now available from MOIST Books. You can buy the book direct from the publisher or visit any bookshop in the UK or EU to order (distribution through Central). A limited-edition print with the book’s title poem can be purchased here.

At the Haus für Poesie in Berlin Kathleen read from the book at “Eigenes Licht finden” November 12 in conversation with Alexander Gumz, alongside Hannes Currle, Nasima Sophia Razizadeh, Gundula Schiffer, and Daniel Bayerstorfer. 

The Berlin Launch for YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL was held at Lisbeth in conversation with Sylee Gore, November 14, 2024.

The London Launch for YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL featured Evie Ward (JOAN), Joseph Noonan-Ganley (Ma Bibliotheque) and Sopie Seita (87 Press) at The Broadway Bookshop  November 28, 2024.

NY + virtual events for Meret Oppenheim’s poetry

Kathleen discussed Meret Oppenheim’s poetry in conversation with C. Francis Fisher, translator of Joyce Mansour, with Éric Trudel October 1, 2024 at Bard College NY; October 5 with Mark Polizzotti at 192 Books, NYC; October 10 with Effie Rentzou at NYU Deutsches Haus; and October 13 online with Effie Rentzou for the ISSS. Click here to watch video documentation of the 192 Books conversation.

Flow Chart Foundation + Art Omi + WWB

Flow Chart Foundation, Art Omi, and Words Without Borders present a roundtable on translating poetry Sept 8th in Hudson, NY. With John Keene, Yasmine Seale, and Yolande Schutter, Kathleen took part in a reading and conversation moderated by Eric M.B. Becker. Click here to listen and here to watch video from the event. Kathleen is also the September alum-in-residence at Art Omi: Writers. Two poems by Marie T. Martin in her translation are featured in Words Without Borders.

New poetry in The Bennington Review

Kathleen has three poems in issue 13 of The Bennington Review, which features new work by Cole Swenson, Wayne Koestenbaum, and Anne Waldman.

Berlin Senate literary translation fellowship

Kathleen received a literary translation research fellowship from the Berlin Senate for July & August 2024.

Tanzplattform Deutschland 2024

Kathleen attended Tanzplattform Deutschland 2024 in Freiburg as the tanzschreiber Berlin correspondent. Her texts in English alongside those in German by Rachel Oidtmann of Freiburg can be accessed here and here.

Fall performance at Hopscotch, poem in Berlin Lit

The poem “Portemonnaie” is in the autumn 2023 issue of berlin lit. Click here to read Issue 5.

Kathleen performed new work alongside Susan Finlay and others at Hopscotch Reading Room Berlin November 5th.

Berlin Senate dance research fellowship

Kathleen received a dance/performance research fellowship from the Berlin Senate in Summer 2023 for “Embodying the Gesture,” her project investigating compositional possibilities in human gesture and its anthropological and linguistic origins.

The Loveliest Vowel Empties NYC book launch at Karma March 9th, March 18th at a.p. in Berlin

The NYC book launch for The Loveliest Vowel Empties, Meret Oppenheim’s collected poems, was March 9th, 2023, at Karma Bookstore in the East Village, in conversation with Wayne Koestenbaum and Lee Colón. Details here. The livestream from Montez Press Radio is archived here.

The Berlin launch was March 18th at a.p. bookstore, in conversation with An Paenhuysen.

Fonds Daku #TakeHeart research grant

In Winter 2023 Kathleen received funding from the Fonds Darstellende Künste #TakeHeart program for “Hinübertragung,” her research exploring the choreographic resonances of translating Meret Oppenheim’s poetry.

Meret Oppenheim’s poetry in The New Yorker, Lit Hub, Paris Review Daily, NER, Circumference, Poetry Daily

The first English-language translation of the collected poems of Meret Oppenheim, The Loveliest Vowel Empties, is available now from World Poetry Books.

Excerpts from the book appear in The New Yorker, The Paris Review Daily, Arkansas International, World Poetry Review, Lit Hub, Circumference, New England Review, and Poetry Daily.

Press in London Review of Books, Harriet, Arteidolia, Meanjin Quarterly, Moment Magazine, Rain Taxi, Motor Dance Journal, Hyperallergic, Border Crossings, and The New Yorker.

New fiction in The Common & Literary Hub

The short story “Geist” appears in Issue 24 of The Common. It is also a featured fiction read in November at LitHub.

New poetry in Wet Grain

The poem “indigitamenta” is in the current issue of Wet Grain. The Berlin issue launch is at Hopscotch Reading Room September 8th. Details here.

“The Denby Variations” performance + poems

“The Denby Variations,” a multidisciplinary dance work by Kathleen Heil, received support from the Fonds Darstellende Künste to perform at ACUD and to present a hybrid virtual panel discussing Edwin Denby’s dance writings, whose words are used with kind permission of the Estate of Edwin Denby. Details here.

A review by Maria Ladopoulos appears in tanzschreiber.

“The Denby Sonnets“ (6–9) appear in DIAGRAM. Sonnets 1–5 & 10–14 are in Beloit Poetry Journal and Puerto del Sol.