Parisian Phoenix Publishing

In recognition of the importance of geographic place, Parisian Phoenix will release Kathryn Dohrmann’s poetry chapbook Archaeomythology in November. Kathryn is a colleague of Ben Goluboff, our poet from Lake Forest University in Chicago who collaborated with Mark Luebbers to create our recent Group Portrait, another unique poetry project that appealed to my love of mid-twentieth century history. (View more about Group Portrait here.)

Kathryn explains her first chapbook with us in this way:

The title, Archaeomythology (also the title of the last poem in the collection), reflects a kind of digging. The opening epigraph, “the places I inhabit and that inhabit me,” foretells a delving into the places that matter most to me: home, garden, nearby natural landscapes, and childhood landscapes.

And then in the spring, Parisian Phoenix will publish a second chapbook from Kathryn, Mskoze/Red She Is, again, best described by the poet herself:

“Mskoze” is a Potawatomi word for “red” and it is a verb (thus “Red She Is”). There’s an Introduction to the Poems, which is meant to be a guide to (a) the journey to find an Indigenous plant name.

As a resident of Pennsylvania, I look forward to learning more about the Potawatomi, as the native/indigenous tribes I am most familiar with are the Shawnee and the Lenni Lenape.