Katie Farris - January 23, 2025

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Katie Farris

Katie Farris reads poems from Standing in the Forest of Being Alive (2023), which follows her experiences with breast cancer, chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation. Through these poems, Farris explores love, intimacy, and daily life during illness with humor and compassion. She opens with one new poem and a translation of Ukrainian poet Lesyk Panasiuk. This reading was originally given with Ilya Kaminsky.

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Welcome
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by Tyler Meier

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Introduction
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by Julie Swarstad Johnson

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"The Year Not Long Enough to Measure His Single Death"
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Uncollected.

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"In The Hospital Rooms of My Country"
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Read by Katie Farris.

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Panasiuk, Lesyk. In The Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine. Edited by Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky. Medford, MA: Arrowsmith Press, 2023. 

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"Why Write Love Poetry in a Burning World"
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Farris, Katie. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive. New Gloucester: Alice James Books, 2023. 

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"Tell It Slant"
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Farris, Katie. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive. New Gloucester: Alice James Books, 2023. 

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"When You Walk over the Earth"
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Differs slightly from published version. 

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Farris, Katie. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive. New Gloucester: Alice James Books, 2023. 

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"On the Morning of the Port Surgery"
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Farris, Katie. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive. New Gloucester: Alice James Books, 2023. 

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"In the Event of My Death"
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Farris, Katie. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive. New Gloucester: Alice James Books, 2023. 

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"The Man You Are the Boy You Are"
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Farris, Katie. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive. New Gloucester: Alice James Books, 2023. 

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"If Marriage"
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Farris, Katie. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive. New Gloucester: Alice James Books, 2023. 

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"In the Early Days of the Global Pandemic"
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Farris, Katie. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive. New Gloucester: Alice James Books, 2023. 

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"Finishing Emily Dickinson, First Deacon in William Blake's Church of the Marriage of Heaven and Hell, in the Oncologist's Waiting Room"
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Farris, Katie. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive. New Gloucester: Alice James Books, 2023. 

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"Outside Atlanta Cancer Care"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Farris, Katie. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive. New Gloucester: Alice James Books, 2023. 

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"An Unexpected Turn of Events Midway through Chemotherapy"
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Farris, Katie. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive. New Gloucester: Alice James Books, 2023. 

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"Pirate Haiku"
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Farris, Katie. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive. New Gloucester: Alice James Books, 2023. 

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"A Week before Surgery, I Practice My Body"
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Farris, Katie. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive. New Gloucester: Alice James Books, 2023. 

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"After the Mastectomy"
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Differs slightly from published version. 

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Farris, Katie. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive. New Gloucester: Alice James Books, 2023. 

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"Woman with Amputated Breast Awaits PET Scan Results"
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Farris, Katie. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive. New Gloucester: Alice James Books, 2023. 

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"Standing in the Forest of Being Alive"
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Differs slightly from published version. 

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Farris, Katie. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive. New Gloucester: Alice James Books, 2023. 

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"Said the High Priestess to the Magician"
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Differs slightly from published version. 

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Farris, Katie. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive. New Gloucester: Alice James Books, 2023. 

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"To the God of Radiation"
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Farris, Katie. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive. New Gloucester: Alice James Books, 2023. 

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Katie Farris
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Paola Valenzuela
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Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris
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Paola Valenzuela
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