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Poetry keeps reminding me how poetry and life are inextricably intertwined —  for everyone, although only some are aware of it.

Vincent Katz, in Ada Calhoun’s “Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me” (Grove Press, June 14, 2022) 

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Artists’ Book Display for the week of March 11th, 2019

Tellus #24 by Barbara Moore- New York : Tellus, 1991

Cabal of Zealots by Vincent Katz- Madras; New York : Hunaman Books, 1988

As Is by Michael Harvey- Harvey, 1972

residu = residue by Karilee Fuglem, Annie Martin, Carman Ruschiensky and Andrea Szilasi

Kubla Can't by Tony Kemplen- Sheffield, Uk: Ring Pull Press, 1996

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Occasionally, specific details—a horse, a fox, a mouse—intervene.

Vincent Katz, on the poetry of Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

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Our ongoing affair with our cities, with fields, flowers, and creatures around us, and the closeness engendered by our sharing space and time with them, animates Vincent Katz’s poems in Daffodil.

City Birds Flying

Among the ugly new buildings I’ve come to like, I’ve been seeing, for a few days now, A strange and beautiful phenomenon: Birds, pigeons I assume, like to circle within their blank spaces. Whether for air current, flying bugs they can eat, convivial exercise,      whatever, They go there and add charm to these harsh, uncaring façades. Other birds fly here too, gulls and others, Here near the river, they also add glory and grace to the view. And now, my friend, my buddy, my pet, my dove Has returned and sits on the fire escape railing out my window, A light breeze ruffling his feathers.

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Browse other books by Vincent Katz and learn more about Daffodil.

Vincent Katz will be in conversation with Edmund Berrigan to discuss Daffodil at 192 Books in New York, NY on April 17 at 7:00 PM. A livestream and archived recording will be available here. Vincent and Claire Millikin will read their poetry at Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Cambridge, MA on April 24 at 7:00 PM. You can register here for the in-person event or register here to tune in virtually via Zoom. Please check Vincent Katz’s author page for more information about other upcoming readings and events.

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On this day of love, let’s have a fresh poem, a chance at intimacy. Here’s one by Vincent Katz, from his forthcoming collection, Daffodil.

The moon embraced by mist 

The moon embraced by mist Hovers on a wet backdrop The hours’ arbitrary measure Of a space we both inhabit

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More on this book and author: 

Browse other books by Vincent Katz and preorder Daffodil.

Hear Vincent Katz and Claire Millikin read their poetry at Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Cambridge, MA on April 24 at 7:00 PM. You can register here for the in-person event or register here to tune in virtually via Zoom. Please check Vincent Katz's author page for more information about other upcoming readings and events. 

Visit our Tumblr to peruse poems, audio recordings, and broadsides in the Knopf poem-a-day series.

More of Vincent Katz’s new work will be featured this April, when we send daily poems throughout the month in celebration of National Poetry Month. Please pass along this sign up link to share the Knopf Poetry newsletter with friends in anticipation of our poem-a-day selections, coming to your inbox starting on April 1.

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It’s a generosity of spirit: ‘I love this thing and here, why don’t you take it.’ That’s him as a person.

Vincent Katz and Ada Calhoun on Frank O’Hara in Ada Calhoun’s “Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me” (Grove Press, June 14, 2022) 

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Broadway for Paul, published tomorrow, gathers Vincent Katz’s new poems about our civic and private life, set mostly in New York City. Katz takes joy, where he can, in our daily rounds, and where there can’t be unmixed joy, maintains a judicious, sunlit openness that invites a deepening of understanding.

Morning, or Evening?

Everywhere, right now, parents are making breakfast, Older people waking up alone, another day

Walking down platform, seeing the flood of faces coming into the city, One is taken, not by a Heinrich Böllian sense of dull sameness, But rather that this is an epochal moment We all share, we are all somehow in this together.

Repeated rhythms, every Thursday, placing coins or a bill or two Into the open valise of the trumpeter always there— Grand Central he plays, and the lineage, where that music flows from, Where it is going, an undeniable story in our midst, Woven into our fabric, that none, in their heart of hearts, can deny.

Important to be in one’s own head, not subject to advertising or even   others’ art.

Leaving tracks covered in snow, tracks in snow, rock imposing wall, Cross the river, gain speed, struts protect the building from falling    down.

Clouds travel faster than houses, farther back, we pass towns, Skirt highways, fly through wetlands, Faster than speed, we are bringing information, ways of seeing:

Transmit focus to fingers on controls, So blighted, threatened, scared as little children, terrified of own   ignorance.

This is a chapter; it will end, And there will be another chapter, and that will end, and so on, Until we come to the end of the book, and that’s that. But the thing is, what did your book add up to, what did it say? The Greeks believed your character determines your fate. You can veer here and there, but ultimately something inside you,    the way you are, Has already determined the kinds of choices you will make.

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Learn more about Broadway for Paul by Vincent Katz.

Learn more about Vincent Katz.

Follow Vincent Katz on Instagram, where he'll be celebrating the publication of Broadway for Paul by giving live readings throughout the month.

Peruse other poems, audio recordings, and broadsides in the Knopf poem-a-day series.

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