Kathe L. Palka

Poet

Flemington, NJ
New Jersey US
Email: 
k-jpalka@comcast.net
Website: 
kathepalka.com

Author's Bio

Bio: Kathe L. Palka lives in Flemington, New Jersey. She is a past editor of US 1 Worksheets and currently co-edits the online micropoetry journal http://tinywords.com/ . Two poems from her most recent book in free verse, Miracle of the Wine: New and Selected Poems were featured on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer's Almanac. In 2011 she won a Snapshot Press eChapbook award for her short tanka collection As the Years Pass. Her latest book is in the tan renga form, A Path of Desire, collaborative poems written together with Peter Newton, Red Moon Press, 2015.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
carving darkness: The Red Moon Press Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2011 (Red Moon Press, 2012)
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Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka, Vol. 4, 2011 (Keibooks, 2012)
,
The Temple Bell Stops: Contemporary Poems of Grief, Loss and Change (Modern English Tanka Press, 2012)
,
Dreams Wander On: Contemporary Poems of Death Awareness (Modern English Tanka Press, 2011)
,
evolution: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2010 (Red Moon Press, 2011)
,
Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka Vol. 3, 2010 (Modern English Tanka Press, 2011)
,
seed packets: an anthology of flower haiku (bottle rockets press, 2010)
,
To Love One Another: Poems Celebrating Marriage (Grayson Books, 2002)
Books:
A Path of Desire: tan renga, written in collaboration with Peter Newton (Red Moon Press, 2015)
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Miracle of the Wine: new and selected poems (Grayson Books, 2012)
,
Faith to See and Other Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2007)
,
The Grace of Light (Finishing Line Press, 2004)
Journals:
A Hundred Gourds
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Alehouse Press
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Bogg
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bottle rockets
,
Canary
,
Cezanne's Carrot
,
Contemporary Haibun Online
,
Ekphrasis
,
Exit 13 Magazine
,
Frogpond
,
Haibun Today
,
Journal of New Jersey Poets
,
Modern Haiku
,
Paper Wasp
,
Penwood Review
,
Perspectives
,
Poet Lore
,
Potomac Review
,
Red Lights
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Shot Glass Journal
,
The Heron's Nest
,
U.S. 1 Worksheets
,
Windhover
Prizes won: 

Prizes: 2011 Snapshot Press eChapbook Award for her short tanka collection As the Years Pass, (Snapshot Press, Great Britain, 2012).

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
New Brunswick
Raised in: 
Somerset County, NJ
New Jersey
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Last update: Nov 02, 2022