Katharine Coles’ fifth poetry collection, The Earth Is Not Flat (Red Hen 2013), was written under the auspices of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. Her sixth collection, Flight, is due out from Red Hen in 2016. Her poems, essays, and stories have appeared in such journals as The Paris Review, The Gettysburg Review, Poetry, Image, Seneca Review, North American Review, Southwest Review, Poetry, Web Conjunctions, Virginia Quarterly Review, DIAGRAM, and Ascent. A Professor at the University of Utah, she served from 2006 to 2012 as Utah Poet Laureate and in 2009 and 2010 as the inaugural director of the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute. She has received grants and awards from the NEA, the NEH and the Guggenheim Foundation. She was poet in residence at the University of Canberra festival, Poetry on the Move, in 2015.

On the Move

The literature of exploration

This is the adapted text of the keynote talk by Katharine Coles, poet in residence at the Poetry on the Move festival at the University of Canberra, 2015.

Sounding and Seeing

This is the adapted text of the presentation given by Katharine Coles, poet in residence at the Poetry on the Move festival 2015, demonstrating Poemage, a computational tool developed by a team of poets and computer scientists.