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Kathy Reichs is the author of the poetry collections A Map of Bones, The Collected Poems of Kathy Reichs, and The Bodies of Blood. She lives and writes in Baltimore, Maryland.
Kathy Reichs has been called many things, including a weirdo, a witch, a witchy, a witch, a weirdo, and an angry little girl, but one thing she’s never been is a wannabe writer. She’s going to try anyway.
Kathy Reichs has published eight books of prose poetry and one poetry collection: A Map of Bones. She lives and writes in Baltimore, Maryland.
When a writer’s been in New York City and they meet you, that’s a pretty big thing.
Kathy Reichs, author of A Map of Bones, on her first meeting with Ed McLeod, who is a poetry consultant to the World Bank. (Photo: Ed McLeod)
Kathy Reichs is a pretty nice lady, and it would probably be a nice thing if Ed McLeod would like her writing, but he is a poet in the world of poetry.
Kathy Reichs, who lives in the Washington, D.C. area, has the distinction of having won the Pushcart Prize on three occasions: as a writer, as a reader, and as a consultant to the World Bank. She has a third-floor walk-up apartment in the Washington, D.C. area.
I had a conversation with Kathy Reichs about the poem “If” about this very issue. She was talking about poetry, and the world of poetry, and about writing poetry. And she said, I mean, she really likes the world of poetry. I said, “You like it. Why?” She said, “Well, this poem is beautiful, but I don’t think poetry is really that important.” I said, “You
