Katie Ford

Biography

Katie Ford is the author of four books of poems: Deposition (2002), Colosseum (2008), Blood Lyrics (2014), and If You Have to Go (2018), all published by Graywolf. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry,  American Poetry Review, the Paris Review, Ploughshares, Partisan Review, Poets & Writers, and Pleiades. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside.

See Work

POETRY / Winter 2014

Open & Borrow

By Katie Ford

When I scarcely know what error of mind
made all brick, stucco, ravine, ale, and song fail
and all floorboards flee except 

POETRY / Winter 2014

Choir

By Katie Ford

I once believed in heavenly clarity—
do you know how good it feels to sing
of certainty, the wild apricot

POETRY / Winter 2012

Theory of War

By Katie Ford

Admit coming upon the fallen horse at evening,
now asleep but withered, now reducing as you near, now

POETRY / Spring 2012

Our Long War

By Katie Ford

If we are at war let the orchards show it,
let the pear and fig fall prior to their time,
let the radios die
and the hounds freeze over their meat.