June Artist of the Month
I’m honored to be Imgae Journal‘s June Artist of the month!
“Gifted newcomer Kristin George Bagdanov is a border-crosser: in her poems, she moves her needle back and forth across the gap between mind and body, heaven and earth, human and nature, human and divine, then pulls the thread tight, drawing the panels together….”
Read more and see one of my poems from Image’s 25 year anniversary issue.
My thoughts on tragedy, poetry, symbol, issues, and grieving online. Ruminate.
Two new poems, “Commodity Body” and “Damage Body,” are up in the May issue of Word Riot. Check them out here.
Head over to Ruminate for my post “6 Literary Magazines you should read in 2014”
Why 6? I’m not sure…
Head on over to As It Ought To Be every Saturday morning for a new poem. Here’s a link to December 14, 2013, when my poem “We Dissolve Separately” was reprinted from Thrush poetry journal.
“Editor’s Note: If I had to sum up today’s poem in one word it would be “powerful.” With this piece Kristin George Bagdanov takes on the heavy and the deep; without fear, without apprehension. “Trust me,” she tells us bluntly, “you will / always be alone.” We can love, but “We will always be separate in time, / the distance between our bodies in bed / the distance between your death and mine.” From its biblical entry—as captivating as the origin story it evokes—to its repeated waves of brutal honesty, today’s entry is as well-wrought as the human body in all its striking, singular existence.”