The Art of the Haibun with Katherine Larson – Ames Writers Collective

Join the Ames Writers Collective/Fifth Street Writers for the “Art of the Haibun” with poet, Katherine Larson.

Katherine Larson is the author of two collections of poetry—Radial Symmetry (Yale University Press, 2011), selected by Louise Glück as winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, and The Speechless Ones (Interlinea Press, 2016), recipient of the Vercelli International Civic Poetry Prize (former recipients include Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Adam Zagajewski). Her forthcoming book, Wedding of the Foxes (Milkweed Editions, 2025), is a collection of lyric essays. Larson’s work has appeared in numerous literary journals including AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, Blackbird, Boulevard, Crab Orchard Review, Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, Notre Dame Review, Orion, Poetry, and Poetry Northwest and anthologized in Read America(s): An Anthology, Prentice Hall’s Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, and Firsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets.

She is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, a Kate Tufts Discovery Award, the Larry Levis Reading Prize, the Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Poetry Prize, and the Foreword Indies Gold Medal in Poetry. She has taught in the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine and the University of Arizona Poetry Center. She is currently active with organizations and artists dedicated to conservation and environmental education in the Sonoran Desert and Gulf of California.

TO REGISTER, click here! Cost: $15 (students) to $25.

This event is held in partnership with the Iowa State University MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment Pearl Holgrefe Visiting Writers Series.