About the Author
Kathryn Hargett-Hsu
Kathryn Hargett-Hsu (1999-) is a poet based in St. Louis, Missouri. Born and raised in Alabama, she received her MFA in Writing from Washington University in St. Louis, where was Senior Poetry Fellow. Her chapbook GOOD LISTENER (2023) was selected by Kemi Alabi for the Frontier Poetry Breakthrough Chapbook Contest.
Kathryn has received fellowships from Disquiet International, Kundiman, Fine Arts Work Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Mendocino Coast Writers Conference, Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets, and National YoungArts Foundation, among others. Most recently, she was the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize, the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize, and the Norma Lowry Poetry Prize.
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Good Listener
Good Listener is a vivid and inventive collection of poetry that navigates one’s identity with the past, the self, and the world. Inspired by many prominent and impactful poets such as Victoria Chang and Pierre Reverdy, Kathryn Hargett-Hsu combines irresistible imagery with unexpected language to take the reader on an expedition through time and space with the landscape of delicate and deliberate form. In this collection, each poem is a story, a lifetime, a magic show-let yourself become enraptured.