Katherine Hastings
Katherine Hastings is an American poet from Northern California. Her full length collections are “A Different Beauty” (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022), "Shakespeare & Stein Walk Into a Bar" (Spuyten Duyvil NYC, 2016), Nighthawks (Spuyten Duyvil NYC, 2014) and Cloud Fire (Spuyten Duyvil NYC, 2012). Life Hastings grew up in the Cow Hollow neighborhood of San Francisco, a city that has deeply influenced her work. She lived in Sonoma County, California, for several decades where she served as Sonoma County Poet Laureate (2014 — 2016). She founded and curated the WordTemple Poetry Series for a dozen years and WordTemple Arts & Lectures. Poets who have read in the series include Robert Hass, Jane Hirshfield, Carolyn Kizer, Ishmael Reed, Jane Mead, David St. John, David Meltzer, Diane DiPrima, August Kleinzahler, Colleen McElroy, Dana Gioia, Ilya Kaminsky, Al Young, Michael McClure, Susan Griffin, Judy Grahn, Brenda Hillman, Kay Ryan, Ellen Bass, Paul Hoover, Camille Dungy, Malachi Black, Natalie Diaz, Tomas Morin, Ada Limon and many others. Hastings hosted a radio program, also called WordTemple, on Santa Rosa KRCB 91 FM, an NPR affiliate for a over a decade. Hastings received her MFA in Writing from Vermont College. Hastings has had poems published in numerous