Poetry
Cover art by Sarah Schmidt
Releasing June 2, 2024
Ebook now available for
pre-order on Amazon
In her debut poetry collection, Sophie A. Katz explores what it’s like to pursue love and connection as an aro-ace person in a world obsessed with romance and sex. Katz weaves together introspective monologues and odes to past partners, using a variety of poetic forms to navigate the spectrums of her experience, both in love and out of it.
Enigma and Other Aromantic Asexual Love Poems confronts the idea that there is a single, universal formula for “happily ever after,” inviting the reader to seek out shared truths among the unique contradictions and inconstancies of a specific queer Jewish woman.
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"Meaning"
“My professor, the scholar, is reading aloud,
reciting that stanza she wrote long ago
in his silvery sotto voce.”Awarded the Alpha of Iowa Phi Beta Kappa chapter’s 2016 Love of Learning Poetry Prize.
Image Source: Phi Beta Kappa society
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"In His Words"
“Like I said, I was extremely lucky.”
Based on an interview with my great-great uncle, Sol Steingart.
Published in Ink Lit Mag No. 11.
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"Enigma"
“And if want of you can vanish so completely,
What else of you can vanish so completely?”Published in Tell Magazine, an online feminist creative journal. Reading performed on TikTok and on the podcast A OK, Episode 28: Let’s Smash Normal.
Image Source: A OK Podcast