Watch and hear Kate read poems from her first chapbook, Our Day in the Labyrinth, in the above launch reading video–which also features appearances from Kate’s mentor poets Susan Kelly-DeWitt, William O’Daly and Indigo Moor. (Special thanks to Epiclesis for providing the video equipment!)
Learn more about Our Day in the Labyrinth, Kate’s first chapbook of poems, here. Find out about events readings where you can meet Kate here. Kate also co-hosts periodic sub parties and teaches workshops in Sacramento.
Read a review of Kate’s first poetry collection, the chapbook Our Day in the Labyrinth. Read Kate’s first interview about the chapbook, published by Why There Are Words in Sausalito, CA. Explore this post from Kate’s Miscellany marking Kate’s five-year community workshop anniversary and reflecting Kate’s experiences teaching and being taught. Enjoy this wide-ranging older interview, conducted by Janna Marlies Maron for Stories on Stage Sacramento, in which Kate speaks about her own writing practice, submissions, teaching and reading.
Listen to an audio recording of “The Chapbook Across Genres,” the panel Kate created and moderated at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) annual conference in 2016, featuring DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press’s Lawrence Lenhart, CutBank’s Josh Fomon and Finishing Line Press’s Elizabeth Maines. (Forgive the funky sound of the first 90 seconds!)
Listen to the archive of Kate’s interview about “The Chapbook: Yesterday’s Revolution, Today’s Renaissance” on Capital Public Radio’s Insight with Beth Ruyak on November 3, 2015. Also in fall 2015, Kate herself interviewed poet, translator and novelist William O’Daly as part of the Coffee and Poets podcast series; listen here.
Publications
Poetry published “[Untitled]” and “Meta-Ekphrasis I: Plasmata” in May 2024; enjoy the poems in print and in audio at the Poetry Foundation.
DIAGRAM published “Visual Field Test” in late 2018.
Check out Switchback and read Kate’s poem published there in September 2018.
Read Kate’s poem published in Canary in summer 2018.
To read Kate’s poem “Flame,” published in the Winter 2013 issue of The Summerset Review, click here.
To hear Kate’s poems published in Quiddity International Literary Journal (Volume 6.2 – Fall/Winter 2013) click here for “Eye” and here for “Hook Jaw and Bone.” (Thanks to Chris Alford and Epiclesis for recording!)
To hear Kate’s poem “Small Animals,” published in RHINO Poetry 2012, click here. (Thanks to Chris Alford and Epiclesis for recording!)
Listen to the finalist audio poem, “Know/Don’t Know,” originally published at The Missouri Review online.
To hear two more poems (thanks to Chris Alford and Epiclesis for recording!), click here (for “Yolo Causeway,” published in fall 2012 in Late Peaches), and click here (for “Poem After Walking,” published in the Spring 2012 Schuylkill Valley Journal).
Kate read a portion of an in-progress essay, “Heavenly Bodies,” at Why There Are Words in Sausalito in December 2011. View the video here.
To see work from Issue 110 of Confrontation, in which Kate was published, click here. To read Kate’s poem from that issue, “Hand Song,” click here: Hand Song by Kate Asche. Learn more about Kate and her writing and process at this profile created by Kelly Trom, a Journalism major at Kate’s alma mater, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.