For 133 years, this is the only newspaper in America still being printed on a hot metal Linotype.

This peculiar machines was the first typewriter invented and manufactured in Denmark in 1876.

Witness the love and affection of caregiver for the last two remaining northern white rhinoceros.

Insight to creativity by Yo-Yo Ma. Watch his debut at the Kennedy White House with an introduction by Leonard Bernstein.

A poem written while attending the Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal.

Nominated for the Pushcart Prize & Winner of the ACC Writer’s
Studio Award. The Progenitor, Spring, 2013.

Award-winning poet, master gardener, founder of
The Bloomington Community Orchard, a food justice project, and basketball aficionado.

A poem from my book This Incendiary Season.

Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Middle Creek Publishing & Audio.
Fall 2020. Art by Sarah Nolan.

A poem from my book This Incendiary Season.

Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Middle Creek Publishing & Audio.
Fall 2020. Art by Sarah Nolan.

“It is sobering to contemplate the fact that her known
correspondents number ninety-three.”

~The Life of Emily Dickinson by Richard B. Sewell

A poem.
East of Fort Collins, Colorado, my hometown, on the Niobrara Formation, over 34,751 fracking sites exist according to Fractrack.org.

Published in Cirque & Sky by Middle Creek Publishing & Audio.

“Anyone who has ever hoped to outrun grief will find themselves in these lush, gorgeous poems. They confront the sterility of modern death with the bright colors, wheeling birds, and jangling silver bracelets of India. Not just a travelogue, but a voyage into loss and redemption.”
~Dr. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, Professor of Geography, Indiana University.

“Kathleen Willard is a writer for the Anthropocene.”
John Calderazzo, English Professor Emeritius, Colorado State University

Cirque & Sky, a series of pastorals and anti-pastorals, documents both the beauty and the destruction of the Rocky Mountain West. David Martin, publisher of Middle Creek Publishing says her book is “an important text in the environmental literary canon of the American West.”