When a poem is uploaded to the internet, traditional publishers consider that a publication. If they're putting together a project -- an anthology or a literary magazine or something -- that doesn't accept previously published material, it means you cannot submit the uploaded poem to that project. Which is a drag.  It is also why I am not including new poetry on this page; instead, I am providing links to poems already on the internet, many of which have been published in print as well.

On this page:

POEMS
"By Judge Alone" CV2, 2019
"Wedding Blessing" Poetry in Public Places, 2016
"Why So Many Dogs" All Lit Up, 2013
"Coverlet" CV2, 2012

OTHER WRITING BY KATHY MAC
"Science at the Heart: Five Recent Canadian Books of Poetry," Canadian Literature, 2014
"Subsequent Collaboration: The Reunion Poems and Drawings" Educational Insights, 2008

OTHER ONLINE RESOURCES
Kathy Mac's entry in the New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia, Clare Goulet, 2014
The Atlantic Canadian Poets Archive, ongoing since 2011
Kathy Mac's interview and biography in the New Brunswick Authors Portal, NB Libraries

Poems

"By Judge Alone"
CV2, Spring 2018
An honourable mention in Contemporary Verse 2’s annual 2 Day Poem contest in 2018. Participants are emailed a list of 8 words at midnight on Friday night, words which they must have used in a poem and submitted to CV2 by midnight on Sunday night.
         “By Judge Alone” uses anaphora – repeated line openings – to evoke a sense of inevitability, of fatalism, appropriate to the implied subject matter. From the texts readers learn, the narrator is coping with someone's dysfunction. The  repeated phrase begins as “Don’t judge…” but it varies as the poem progresses.

To "By Judge Alone"

“Why So Many Dogs”
All Lit Up, April 2014
This “Thirty Day, Coast-to-Coast Poetry Program” blog publishes a poem a day during Canada’s National Poetry Month (April, the worst month in the year for anyone working at a university). They featured a piece from The Hundefraulein [Dog-Nanny] Papers, which answered the question often asked in the years I looked after Elisabeth Mann Borgese’s many English Setters: “Why does she keep so many dogs?”

To "Why So Many Dogs"

“Wedding Blessing” was selected for the Poetry in Public Places project in Fredericton, Canada, in 2016. It celebrates the wedding of Mac’s friend-since-grade-one, Sharolyn Lee to her much newer friend Ken Bolton.

“Coverlet”
CV2 Winter 2012
Written while Mac held a fellowship at Hawthornden Castle in Scotland "Coverlet", speculates on the anguish of Ben Jonson, who walked to Hawthornden and thereby escaped the plague in London, though his son did not.

To "Coverlet"

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Other On-line Writing
by Kathy Mac

Some of Elizabeth MacKenzie's graphite drawings that inspired Kathy Mac to write a suite of poems, which, subsequently, led to the "Subsequent Collaboration" article.

"Science at the Heart: Five Recent Canadian Books of Poetry"
Review article for Canadian Literature, 2014

To "Science at the Heart"

"Subsequent Collaboration: The Reunion Poems and Drawings"
Educational Insights, vol 12, #2,  2008.
Correspondence between Kathy Mac and Elizabeth MacKenzie about the poems that Mac wrote as the catalogue for "Reunion," MacKenzie’s exhibition of graphite drawings at the Mount St. Vincent University Art Gallery in Halifax Canada, in 2007.

To "Subsequent Collaboration"

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Other OnLine Resources
About Kathy Mac

Kathy Mac’s entry in the New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia
by Clare Goulet, 2014

To the NBLE

Atlantic Canadian Poets’ Archive
An initiative from Mac’s 2011 honours seminar in Atlantic Canadian Women Poets, now grown to house entries on more than sixty poets. Mac remains the faculty advisor and main grant-getter for the site.

To the ACPA

Biography and Interview on the New Brunswick Authors Portal
NB Public Libraries

To the NBPL Authors Pages

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