POETRY
“The Night Before the Capitol Is Stormed,” Verse Daily, 2024
“Watching the eclipse without him (moon),” Lightwood, 2023
“Kasia,” Sky Island Journal, 2021
“Wildlife Rehab,” Wild Roof Journal, 2021
“Upstate,” “Boy with Crows,” “Moving On,” Talking River Review, 2021
“After the Flood,” Literary North, 2021
“Winter on the Cape,” Gaia Lit, 2021
“Outdoor Job,” “Red Eft,” “Spring, Woodcocks,” “Three-Mile Pond,” Blueline, 2020
“I’d hoped to finish this poem before it came true” (contest winner), Briar Cliff Review, 2019
Poetry editor Jeanne Emmons said, “Kateri Kosek’s ‘I’d hoped to finish this poem before it came true’ explores the anticipation of ‘finishing’ on several levels – global climate change, seasonal transition, and personal relationship. The poem calls upon us to cherish the unseasonable moments of warmth and beauty (‘windows brightening / into unfamiliar pockets of sky’), even as those moments are ‘wanting to be lost.’”
“Surfacing” and “In the Borderlands,” New Ohio Review, Winter 2018
“Disappointment: A New Year’s Quartet,” Fourth River, Fall 2018
“Colorblind,” New Guard, 2018
“Wreck of the Michigan: An Inquiry,” The Hopper, 2018
“Battle Lines,” Northern Woodlands Magazine, Spring 2018
“Sweetness, or, On the security line at the Albuquerque airport,” Catamaran, Winter 2018
“Walking to Dollar General,” The Maine Review, Winter 2018
“Sestina for a Post-Tropical Storm,” Hawaii Pacific Review, November 2017
“there are no birds in this poem” (contest finalist), Rosebud, Fall 2017
“Brayton Point,” Pilgrimage, Winter 2016
“Holiness,” Profane, Winter 2016 (Listen to it here)
“War,” A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Writers of the Hudson Valley, 2013
“Night Crossing” and “Storm at Sea,” First and third place, White Mice Poetry Contest, Lawrence Durrell Society, 2013
“A Black Bird with Snow-covered Red Hills,” Orion Magazine, January 2012
“Eleanor Roosevelt and the Rooster,” Hudson River Valley Review, Autumn 2011 (Scroll to page 177)
“The Art of Throwing Oneself Away,” Rhino, 2009
“Les Poissons Rouge.” Crab Orchard Review, 2008
PROSE
“Everyone Knows Where They’re Going,” Bacopa Literary Review, 2022
“Open Country,” Northern Woodlands Magazine, Winter 2021-22
Tallgrass Artist Residency Reflection, 2020
“The Cherry Birds” (winner, Intoxication theme) Creative Nonfiction, Winter 2018-19.
Read interview here: “Nature is Literally Our Larger Context”
I was captivated by the fervor with which these birds can gorge themselves, so “intoxication” seemed fitting—also the way their beauty can intoxicate us, or the way we need to let ourselves be intoxicated by the natural world if we hope to protect it.
“Letters from Poland” (three-part series), Orion Magazine Blog, 2014
“Makeshift World: The Entropy of Dorchester County, Maryland,” Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments, 2011
“Killing Starlings,” Creative Nonfiction, 2011
“Chasing Winter,” Blueline, 2010
ARTICLES (selected)
“A Pollinator’s Paradise,” Berkshire Magazine, Summer 2023
“Citizen Science: tracking native plants and wildlife rests on volunteers,” Berkshire Magazine, Spring 2020
REVIEWS
See the Wolf, poems by Sarah Sousa, The Berkshire Edge, May 2018
Little Terrarium, poems by Hannah Fries, The Berkshire Edge, December 2016
Prairie Silence, by Melanie Hoffert, Orion, May 2013
BIRDING COLUMNS (selected), The Berkshire Edge
“Two birds, two extremes of habitat,” August 2018
“Horned larks and waterfowl,” April 2018
“Sandhill cranes,” March 2018
“Birds of winter,” Feb. 2018
“American woodcock,” April 2017
“Revenge of the lawn,” August 2016
“Why birds?” June 2016
“Hermit Warblers and Rusty Blackbirds,” March 2016
“The Great Horned Owl,” Feb. 2016
“The scourge of light pollution,” Jan. 2016
“Migrating songbirds, calls in the dark,” Sept. 2015