Poems for Katie
by Timothy Green
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In Poems for Katie, longtime Rattle editor Timothy Green gathers six years of poems written from weekly Rattlecast prompts as a gift for Katie—only to discover they had been telling a story he didn’t know he was living. Kept in chronological order, the poems trace loneliness, divorce, love, and the making of a new family, revealing how ordinary writing exercises had become a hidden record of one life changing.
The book also breaks almost every rule of poetry publishing: the poems are prompt-driven, openly occasional, left in sequence, and accompanied by the prompts that set them in motion. Direct, strange, funny, and emotionally exposed, Poems for Katie asks what poems know before we do—and makes a larger argument for poetry as a way of listening to the subconscious.
Reviews of Poems for Katie
“These poems are both of and for the world—wistful, questioning, urgent and languid at once. Charged with compressed power, they open a door between the distant past and the future coming for us, closing the distance with a word.”
—Tishani Doshi, author of A God at the Door
“The careful bringing together of autobiographical and sometimes deeply personal details and images, with an equally powerful devotion to the power of the imagination to allow us to transcend even our own failures and successes is what most distinguishes these new poems collected in Poems for Katie, Timothy Green’s new collection. All of it is driven by a clarity of diction and by the poet’s commitment to the inherent music of the language that we curse and bless and dream with on a daily basis. This is more than a good read. This is an adventure. Read these poems.”
—Bruce Weigl, author of On the Shores of Welcome Home
“Whether writing poems or delivering an apology, ‘it helps, of course, to really mean it.’ In this collection, long-time editor of Rattle magazine, Timothy Green responds to a series of random writing prompts to find what he really means. These exercises transcend mere assignment and find inspiration, particularly in highlights like ‘Message from the Mojave, 2222,’ ‘How to Pack a Parachute,’ and ‘Grocery List Haibun.’”
—Wendy Videlock, author of Wise to the West
Did You See the Moon Honey
by Katie Dozier and Timothy Green
In their luminous new collaboration, poets Katie Dozier and Timothy Green intertwine their voices in the form of a haibun crown that traces the orbit of intimacy across the phases of a shared life.
Written just after the poets were wed, Did You See the Moon Honey journeys through the quiet rituals that make a marriage: tending the garden, raising children, watching light move across a room together. Each haibun—part prose poem, part haiku—becomes both a love letter and a mirror, reflecting how two poets can write not just beside each other, but through one another.
Expanding on the experiment begun in Hot Pink Moon, this book deepens the dialogue between poem body and verse, earth and sky, self and other. The result is an intimate duet that pulses with wonder, humor, and tenderness—proof that poetry, like the moon, reveals its truest light in reflection.
Reviews of Did You See the Moon Honey
Did You See the Moon Honey is the second 30-day haibun cycle in a form created by Dozier and Green in this outstanding follow-up to Hot Pink Moon. Each haibun skillfully links haiku and prose and is further linked through a well-crafted daisy chain of shared words, with the last stem looping back to the first bloom to complete the haibun crown. Momentum builds as the evolving prompt primes a dynamic volley between the poets that elevates both intimate and everyday moments. At a time when contemporary haibun is exploding with innovation, the haibun crown is a welcome and ingenious expansion to the range of possibilities.
—Kat Lehmann, author of No Matter How It Ends a Bluebird’s Song
What an exhilarating romp! Half the fun in this book is seeing how each haibun becomes a springboard for the next, catapulting the reader into new worlds, the authors finding imaginative leaps from even the most uncommon words and phrases: palimpsest, bioluminescence, memento mori … The other half is simply enjoying each haibun on its own. As I did with their first collection of haibun crown, Hot Pink Moon, I finished Did You See the Moon Honey feeling amazed, admiring, and, most of all, joyous.
—Rich Youmans, editor of Contemporary Haibun Online
Green’s meditative precision and Dozier’s energetic spontaneity weave into a dialogue that is both intimate and expansive, where each haibun builds upon the last in a continuous thread. What emerges is not only a sequence of poems but a portrait of two poets discovering how love itself can become a poetic form. I highly recommend this reflective, renewing, and luminous collection.
—Joshua Eric Williams, author of Silent After
Hot Pink Moon: A Crown of Haibun
by Katie Dozier and Timothy Green
An interlocking chain of haibun composed over a single month, Hot Pink Moon shakes and spins through cycles of love and longing. Permanently pressing the boundaries of a form that combines haiku with prose, Katie Dozier and Timothy Green explore the phases of being together across time and space.
Reviews of Hot Pink Moon
Hot Pink Moon, an outstanding haibun collection by poets Katie Dozier and Timothy Green, is subtitled A Crown of Haibun for a good reason. One that is explained in the Authors’ Note at the start of this slim but impactful volume. Pick up your own copy, dive straight into the haibun, and see if you can solve the puzzle. The effort is worth it. These well-crafted linked haibun, written in alternating points of view, unfold like a diary that is sometimes steamy, sometimes quotidian, but never less than astonishing.
—Roberta Beary, author of Carousel, co-author of Haibun: A Writer’s Guide
Hot Pink Moon is an absolute treat. It epitomizes the level of creative innovation taking place in contemporary haibun, and I love the idea of a crown of them! The book happened to find me on a difficult day—IV inserted, and lots of holes and prodding. It cheered me up, as I’m sure it will for everyone who reads it.
—Lew Watts, author of Eira, co-author of Haibun: A Writer’s Guide
American Fractal
by Timothy Green
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Each portion forming a reduced-size copy of the whole, a fractal is forever fragmented, both chaotic and ordered, endlessly complex. Timothy Green’s American Fractal sees this pattern emerge from the fabric of modern culture, as it navigates the personal, the political, and the metaphysical, in a lyric dreamscape in which an eerie chaos lurks just behind the facade of order–where “what looks like / a river…could be a log,” “as if accident were / the fundamental attribute of life.” In separate poems, one man sells ad space on his forehead, while another examines the multitudes of his own voice on an audio cassette recorder. Each life is but another section of the fractal, the past and the future two mirrors that face each other to perpetuate the illusion of infinites. At turns evocative and sweetly ironic, Green straddles the line between accessibility and complexity, exploring “how the wind whispers our secrets,” how “that little tremor” of understanding “touches your sleeve, lets go.”
Reviews of American Fractal
“In American Fractal, Timothy Green braids together an alert and nimble intelligence, a liveliness of phrasing, a polished sense of form, and a whimsical surrealism—braids them and brings them to bear on our contemporary world. The result, poem after poem that sidles up to the truth and smacks it on the lips or, playfully or in earnest, upside the head.”
—Gregory Orr, author of Concerning the Book that Is the Body…
“The poems in Timothy Green’s American Fractal find love within love; landscape within landscape; the ‘I’ and ‘you’ nestled within the bigger ‘I’ and ‘you.’ Unpredictable, uproarious, and true to the wonder of the moment, Green’s poems are chockfull of magical imagery that blurs the waking and dream life.”
—Denise Duhamel, author of Kinky