Katherine Williams is an artist, poet, scholar, and as I recently learned an HTML code master. How can one person be so good at so many things? We published her at Wherewithal, because you can’t decline a woman with this kind of talent! Enjoy!
Ode on Red
That last red rim of Helios dropping
Into the wine-dark sea below the Palisades
Thrilled him like original sin
As did sharing a slice
Of one of Geryon’s herd—
Here, watch it bleed when you stick it—
Closing night of the big Viola Retrospective
He thought it was supposed to be Bach
Not glorified loft videos—ditched that—
Took her to the Good Luck for a cosmo
Whole joint upholstered in Red he said My
Favorite compassing her in his mind like suede
His paintings were red his rug was red
The traffic light on his corner, only ever red
He put on Kind of Blue to throw her off a little
The walls nearly bled as he poured
Three fingers of Añejo into a ruby
Tumbler closed his eyes and began
On Modernism
.. after Wikipedia, “Thing Theory”
Chicken theory
is a branch of critical theory
that focuses
on the role of chickens in literature
and culture.
It borrows from Heidegger’s
distinction
between objects and chickens,
whereby
an object becomes a chicken
when it is
somehow made to stand
out against
the backdrop of the world in which
it exists.
Chicken theorists look
at the role of chickens within literature
—at the fixation
on particular objects. Chicken
theory holds
particularly well as it applies
to the study
of modernism, due to the dictates
of modernist
poets, such as T. S. Eliot’s notion
of the objective
correlative” or William Carlos Williams’s
declaration
that there should be No ideas
but in chickens.
Katherine Williams has authored four chapbooks and read throughout southern California and the southeast. Her work is published in various anthologies and has received a Pushcart nomination. She has a bachelor’s in French, works in biomedical research, and lives on James Island with her husband, poet Richard Garcia.
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