<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Katerina Canyon]]></title><description><![CDATA[katerina-canyon]]></description><link>https://www.poetickat.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:16:27 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.poetickat.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Hungry Father Lies and the Scared Daughter]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is a mistake on the 30/30 Project site today. The wrong poem was accidentally published for Day 7. I am sure it will be fixed as soon as the U.S. work day begins, but I did not want to let the day pass without sharing the correct poem here. The poem for today is called “Hungry.” Thank you to Callie Tolman for donating. That gift means a great deal to me. I am now halfway toward my goal, and I am grateful for every person who has read, shared, encouraged, or donated during this project....]]></description><link>https://www.poetickat.com/single-post/hungry-father-lies-and-the-scared-daughter</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac764231e0bec4cfc16bbef</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:48:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/695ae5_103b69deb9bb47f38aaf123f800ec16e~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_896,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What time is it where you are?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I made it to Yogyakarta safe and sound and then proceeded to sleep for twelve hours. Now it is 4:00 in the morning, and I have lost all concept of time. I have been trying to write a short blog post each day about the poem appearing in the Tupelo Press 30/30 Project, but somewhere between Jakarta, Yogyakarta, airplanes, hotels, and twelve hours of sleep, I managed to lose track of the sequence. Yesterday’s poem was “Tap a Vein.” I wrote it because Beverly asked me to write a poem about...]]></description><link>https://www.poetickat.com/single-post/what-time-is-it-where-you-are</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac557a51db391e9a08206a9</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:19:10 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mary Tyler Moore Minneapolis Airport Poem on George Floyd and Memory]]></title><description><![CDATA[I am writing this from Jakarta, only a few hours after landing, with that strange airport feeling still in my body. The trip has crossed time zones, cities, weather, memory, and grief. About 24 hours ago, I was sitting in the Minneapolis airport waiting for my flight to Incheon. I was tired. I was between places. I was thinking about Minneapolis, a city I mostly knew through television until history forced me to know it differently. That is where this poem came from. Airports do that...]]></description><link>https://www.poetickat.com/single-post/mary-tyler-moore-minneapolis-airport-poem-on-george-floyd-and-memory</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac2c27ce9c50dabc8074f21</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:27:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/695ae5_de3e3a0707c84ce8accdbd7aa63cc354~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_896,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Message in a Bottle: A 30/30 Project Poem ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some poems arrive like a wave. They do not ask permission. They strike the body first, then leave their meaning behind like salt on the skin. Today’s 30/30 Project poem, “Message in a Bottle,” is one of those poems. It begins at the ocean’s edge, with tar between toes and the body moving through water, sand, kelp, and sound. By the end, the speaker has turned a scream into a note, placed it inside a bottle, and given it to the waves. This poem was written in response to a donation prompt from...]]></description><link>https://www.poetickat.com/single-post/message-in-a-bottle-a-30-30-project-poem</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac129fe1bab6ecf4e327a55</guid><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:23:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/695ae5_bf52ba9dffd244d59810a70eabd7a041~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_896,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mirror, Gratitude, and a Call to Donate to Tupelo Press]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some writing days arrive like a knock at the door. Others arrive like a reflection you were not expecting to see. Today’s poem for Tupelo Press’s 30/30 Project is called “Mirror.” The title felt simple at first, almost too simple. Then the poem began to ask what mirrors usually ask when we are willing to stand still: What are you looking at? What are you avoiding? What has changed while you were busy calling yourself the same? I’m sharing the poem below, along with a note of gratitude and a...]]></description><link>https://www.poetickat.com/single-post/mirror-gratitude-and-a-call-to-donate-to-tupelo-press</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac0363b1bab6ecf4e3048a4</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 23:06:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/695ae5_8c2e11d541824657b091e2c3ed7922ac~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_896,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exploring Upcoming Events, New Poetry and My Quixotic Efforts to Save the World]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’ve had a year filled with creativity and challenges. I just completed my second book since Surviving Home, and now I’m facing the next hurdle—finding publishers for my work. This, of course, is easier said than done. I often struggle to find the time for submissions because I’m always writing—if I’m not writing stories, I’m writing content for the Peace Economy Project . For those who aren’t aware, I serve as the Executive Director of the Peace Economy Project, an organization that...]]></description><link>https://www.poetickat.com/single-post/exploring-upcoming-events-new-poetry-and-my-quixotic-efforts-to-save-the-world</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68ef76b443eb96c837bda717</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 11:13:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/695ae5_d7cc6cb512be42cbb52ec335bb63dfd6~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_768,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing Through the Anxiety]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have anxiety, and it’s playing a game with my head right now. So what do I do about it? I start writing. Usually, I don’t know why I’m...]]></description><link>https://www.poetickat.com/single-post/writing-through-the-anxiety</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68665aced7f2edd2bba84ddf</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 11:00:48 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open Call for Submissions]]></title><description><![CDATA[James Evert Jones, Eileen Carole, and I are in the process of starting a new online poetry and arts journal, and we are looking for...]]></description><link>https://www.poetickat.com/single-post/open-call-for-submissions</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63092466e8db321f47acbffe</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2022 21:23:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_586d9278964246daa64fc475ef9b9950~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's Poetry Month and I'm Blocked!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Six Ways to Fight Writer's Block It is one of my favorite times of the year, and I've got nothing! I should not say I have nothing. I...]]></description><link>https://www.poetickat.com/single-post/it-s-poetry-month-and-i-m-blocked</link><guid isPermaLink="false">625ae63e1e5b6ea60a046e8f</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2022 17:01:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_4207a7b6ef3140a1b485b1c3ba6efd43~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overwhelmed by the Love]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yesterday, at work with Casey Family Programs, we had an icebreaker before our meeting, which was to give a shoutout to a woman we each...]]></description><link>https://www.poetickat.com/single-post/overwhelmed-by-the-love</link><guid isPermaLink="false">622a0696e3eaa818b655470e</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2022 14:48:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/695ae5_ef15ad37e0194f90a08c0b3aa9415d74~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Screaming Boy in the Closet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Quite a few people have asked me about the dedication in my new book, Surviving Home, which says, "To Mozell, the screaming boy in the...]]></description><link>https://www.poetickat.com/single-post/the-screaming-boy-in-the-closet</link><guid isPermaLink="false">61bca8a3140e060016e2b10d</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2021 16:32:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/695ae5_60bd36c1465945c48d645c20299aeccd~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_720,h_960,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free Verse or Traditional Forms]]></title><description><![CDATA[This week in The Canyon Poets Zoom poetry reading, we wrote and shared pantoum poems. 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Poetry can be found in nearly every social platform....]]></description><link>https://www.poetickat.com/single-post/haiku-the-next-big-little-thing-in-poetry</link><guid isPermaLink="false">60a3c5b3ff12fc0015aef089</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2021 14:53:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/695ae5_a5dc70bef13d47fba87db46a5d0b2724~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_936,h_540,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Involuntary Endurance]]></title><description><![CDATA[This week, Spokane Public Radio allowed me to share poems covering the modern Black experience. The first poem I chose to read was my...]]></description><link>https://www.poetickat.com/single-post/involuntary-endurance</link><guid isPermaLink="false">607d9759a003280015624fb7</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2021 15:41:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_754239544d6d375230536f~mv2_d_6720_4480_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Googling My Way to Hypochondria]]></title><description><![CDATA[About a month ago, I got pretty sick. It started with an episode of vomiting and diarrhea, and then a day later, I had a cough, fever,...]]></description><link>https://www.poetickat.com/single-post/2018/05/23/googling-my-way-to-hypochondria</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e97e4b47c340f0017748186</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2018 15:31:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/695ae5_df7d43e5e7714b81bc4e7ec1f6f7f0bd~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_983,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Katerina Canyon</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Motherless Mother's Day]]></title><description><![CDATA[My mother died over thirty years ago when I was 19. Considering that I lived a significant amount of my adulthood without her, I have...]]></description><link>https://www.poetickat.com/single-post/2018/05/11/a-motherless-mothers-day</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e97e4b411229f00178e04b4</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2018 22:33:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/695ae5_954a4bc6070440b4a93a86a8d8ba0357~mv2_d_2304_1536_s_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Katerina Canyon</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small Bear to Great Bear]]></title><description><![CDATA[There’s the big dipper I say “No” she splays my fingers into fronds and measures the night sky from minor to major “There’s the big...]]></description><link>https://www.poetickat.com/single-post/2018/05/10/small-bear-to-great-bear</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e97e4b422f2680017466471</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2018 19:26:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/695ae5_3576b68a7c19419b9e0517a243d72240~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Katerina Canyon</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poem in Your Pocket Day]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today is one of my favorite days. It's Poem in Your Pocket Day. For those of you who don't know, on Poem in Your Pocket Day, you choose a...]]></description><link>https://www.poetickat.com/single-post/2018/04/26/poem-in-your-pocket-day</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e97e4b4124f780017567410</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2018 12:47:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/695ae5_54cf8eb43f5e49d5aa40742f5587cfa0~mv2_d_1416_1833_s_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Katerina Canyon</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Adoption Agencies Are Using Technology To Connect Children With Families]]></title><description><![CDATA[With more than 100,000 children in the U.S. foster care system waiting to be adopted (many of whom will age out of the system before...]]></description><link>https://www.poetickat.com/single-post/2018/02/15/how-adoption-agencies-are-using-technology-to-connect-children-with-families</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e97e4b48019ae002df97464</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2018 14:19:59 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Giving Compass</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cage of Secrets]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last week when I was out to dinner with my brother, he mentioned the last story I wrote about the young boy who did not know how to read...]]></description><link>https://www.poetickat.com/single-post/2018/02/14/cage-of-secrets</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e97e4b4ce9289002d5aa224</guid><category><![CDATA[The Next Day - Medium]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2018 21:59:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/695ae5_0b3d5bf950af46d086481470d3d7df08~mv2_d_2448_3264_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Katerina Canyon</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>