Awe and Other Words Like Wow: Poems

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In her second poetry collection, Kat Georges consciously searches for joy in a world of growing darkness. She finds it in unexpected places: at the doctors office, after being diagnosed with a serious ailment; on the streets of New York, after hearing a young childs laugh; facing off with noisy neighbors; in a supermarket vegetable section encounter with a philosopher. Her adamant insistence on seeking light in the darkest of places sets her work apart in a media-driven world seeking out the grief and devastation, and provides both solace and inspiration for the reader. These new poems combine humor and deep insight into human nature to capture moments of much-needed wonder and enchantment.

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Past Praise for Kat Georges

For Our Lady of the Hunger

Poet Kat Georges hungrily devours love, politics, memory, sex, feminism and whimsy and transforms them into a muscular poetry demanding to be read aloud. Ron Dakron, author, Hello Devilfish

A series of thought-provoking poems that use everyday vernacular to fashion a persona that walks right off the page. There is variety of style and mood here that takes the reader through the urban jungle through the eyes of a woman who has seen, and thought about it, much. Deeply textured and immensely readable. Joanie Zosike, actor, founder of NY Dada

Kat Georges writes with fierce wit about girlhood and womanhood and rock and roll. This collection has my favorite of her poems, Lithium, which perfectly nails that moment between freewheelin' adolescence and broke-ass adulthood when you don't know whether to laugh or cry or just tear shit up. Eat this book! Meagan Brothers, author, Weird Girl and Whats His Name

Compelling writing that is urban and contemporary with humor in the mix. Writing Thru It

For Three Somebodies: Plays about Notorious Dissidents

Brilliant in the abstract. Library Journal

The works of Kat Georges pack a real punch. That's an understatement. I was reeled in by the energy and the layers of art apparent in each play. Ashley Adams, author, Passages North

The writing plucks at strings of thought and left me feeling I had experienced something important. David Loux, author, Chateau Laux

Brilliant, original, enthralling. Lisa Panepinto, poet, On This Borrowed Bike

Author Bio

Kat Georges is an internationally known poet and playwright, who cofounded San Franciscos Marilyn Monroe Memorial Theater in 1992, where she served as co-artistic director for eight years. Her books include the poetry collections Awe and Other Words Like Wow, Our Lady of the Hunger, Punk Rock Journal, and Slow Dance at 120 Beats Per Minute. Her work has appeared in journals worldwide, including The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thunders Mouth Press), Arriving at a Shoreline(Great Weather for Media), From The Inside: NYC Through the Eyes of Poets Who Live Here (Blue Light Press),The Verdict Is In (as editor; Manic D Press), Love, Love Magazine (Paris), and Ladyland: Anthologie de Littrature Fminine Amricaine (13E Note Editions), and many other publications. Her nonfiction prose and essays have been published in San Francisco Examiner, Orange County Register, La Habra Daily Express, and more. She was born and raised in Southern California, where, following her graduation from California State University, Fullerton, she published The Eye Magapaper, an acclaimed music journal covering the SoCal punk scene in the early 80s. She is cofounder and codirector of Three Rooms Press. She lives in New York City.