Poems and Essays
Meet Kate Light, Making Music with NY City Opera, Ovid, and the Dick Van Dyke Show, April 2010
Poems featured on Garrison Keillor’s “The Writers Almanac”:
"You Must Accept" from Gravity's Dream
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2006/08/28
(Read or hear Garrison Keillor read)
“Unknown Neighbor” from Open Slowly
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2003/04/02
(Read or hear Garrison Keillor read)
“There Comes the Strangest Moment” from Open Slowly
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2003/03/20
(Read or hear Garrison Keillor read)
“After The Season” from The Laws of Falling Bodies
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=1998/05/07
Essay in Rochester Review, February 2007
A Violinist and Poet Gets Her Arts on the Same Page
From Gravity's Dream, West Chester University Press, 2006
"I Cart a Memory Too Fine"
"The Idea is the Fleeting Ghostly Fish"
"Seeing You Begin to Consider Loving"
"The Self-Taught Man"
www.mezzocammin.com
"Packing"
"Zeug-o-Matic"
"Riddle"; including audio recording
http://drunkenboat.com/db7/light/
"Thirty-five"
http://evansvillereview.evansville.edu/KateLight
"You Must Accept"
www.nycbigcitylit.com
From Open Slowly, Zoo Press, 2003
"I Never Want To Go When It's Time"
www.nycbigcitylit.com
"We Are,"
"Phantom,"
"I Conclude a Sonnet Never Changed,"
"Maybe Hidden,"
"If He Sees Her"
www.poetrycentral.com
From The Laws of Falling Bodies, Story Line Press, 1997
"After the Season"
"San Francisco"
"Care"
"Greg's Legs"
http://www.poetrynet.org/month/archive/light/index.htm
"Can One Think"
"San Francisco"
"Portrait of David As/Not As A Refrigerator Magnet: Universal"
"Safe-T-Man"
www.poetz.com
Uncollected:
"The Part of Myself That's"
www.nycbigcitylit.com
"The Idea is the Fleeting Ghostly Fish"
"Seeing You Begin to Consider Loving"
"The Self-Taught Man"
"Packing"
"Zeug-o-Matic"
"Riddle"; including audio recording
http://drunkenboat.com/db7/light/
"Thirty-five"
http://evansvillereview.evansville.edu/KateLight
"You Must Accept"
www.nycbigcitylit.com
From Open Slowly, Zoo Press, 2003
"I Never Want To Go When It's Time"
www.nycbigcitylit.com
"We Are,"
"Phantom,"
"I Conclude a Sonnet Never Changed,"
"Maybe Hidden,"
"If He Sees Her"
www.poetrycentral.com
From The Laws of Falling Bodies, Story Line Press, 1997
"After the Season"
"San Francisco"
"Care"
"Greg's Legs"
http://www.poetrynet.org/month/archive/light/index.htm
"Can One Think"
"San Francisco"
"Portrait of David As/Not As A Refrigerator Magnet: Universal"
"Safe-T-Man"
www.poetz.com
Uncollected:
"The Part of Myself That's"
www.nycbigcitylit.com
More Audio
Hear a podcast of Kate's reading at Vanderbilt University on November 13, 2007, as part of the Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series.
Hear Kate speaking
about Einstein's Mozart with interviewer Charley Samson on Colorado Public Radio,
including a reading of "Traveling in Coach," a poem about Mozart's childhood (January
2006).
Hear an excerpt from "Here Beside Me" from Mulan II (Disney
DVD/CD, 2005).
Radio interview (Oceanophony) with Bruce Adolphe and Kate Light on NYC's SoundCheck (April
2004)