Kathy Engel
Associate Arts professor and chair of the Department of Art and Public Policy, Kathy Engel, was featured in an article for Words Without Borders titled The City and the Writer: In New York City with Kathy Engel.
In this insightful interview by Nathalie Handal, Engel delves into her process and relationship with New York City. As a poet, she has worked for nearly forty years at the nexus between social justice movements and art/imagination. Her books include Ruth’s Skirts, poems and prose (IKON, 2007); We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon, coedited with Kamal Boullata (Interlink Books, 2007); The Kitchen, with art by German Perez (Yaboa Press, 2002); and the chapbook Banish The Tentative (1989). Her poetry collection The Lost Brother Alphabet is forthcoming with Get Fresh Books in 2020.
"There’s always an outside. And at the same time, all is connected, interwoven, bleeding together, somehow touching. If we remember that, perhaps we will be the tiniest bit closer to wholeness." -Kathy Engel