Kate Ravin lives in Atlanta, Georgia. She holds an MA in English Literature from Emory University and has worked closely with poets Annie Finch and Jane Huffman. Her work has appeared in venues including Ploughshares, New Verse Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Ekphrastic Review, and The Road Not Taken: A Journal of Formal Poetry. A Tangled Skein is her debut chapbook.
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Kate Ravin is a poet of dark feather and glittering eye. Her skillful wings fly wide over life’s myriad characters, images, and tales; her startling imagination and quirky diction are swift to seize details that matter. Confident and wry, clear-eyed and amused, this is a poet equally at home with feminist myth, social commentary, and resonant memory. Trust in her fervent and generous flight.
Annie Finch, author of Spells: New and Selected Poems
Leveraging both metrical integrity and divergence, forms that adhere and then “cede,” as Dickinson says, from their systems, Kate Ravin’s poems are disobedient. Such is the collection’s project. Girls and women––the poet’s avatars, ancillaries, adversaries, and psychological parts––populate this book, not so much a chorus (too tidy) but a cavalcade, each with her own righteous wisdom, anger, and ambivalence. Through lyric reflections and wry, formally accomplished retellings of myth and folklore, these poems approach cultural memory, generational trauma, and lived experience as stratum: underworld upon underworld.
Jane Huffman, author of Public Abstract