Links

MEDIA

ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
VIDA Review
“Report from the Field: Seeing Is Changing”
LitHub “Reading Across America: A Poetry Reading On An NYC Subway Car? On The International Express Through The Immigrant Communities of Queens”
LitHub "How Do We Fix the MFA?: Toward a New Model for Creative Writing Programs" 
Creative Nonfiction "Up and Above Us" for Oh, Baby! True Stories About Conception, Adoption, Surrogacy, Pregnancy, Labor, and Love (2015)
For Queens Council on the Arts: “Listening to the Voices of QUEENSBOUND’
For Poets House: "The Practice of Poetry: Writing Poems of Place with KC Trommer," based on the 2019 Poets House Workshop "You Are Here: Poems of Place."

REVIEWS
Five Points
- February 2020 Review of We Call Them Beautiful by Scott Hightower

INTERVIEWS AND PRESS
June 2021
Interview with Emily Everett for The Common Podcast
March 2021 Interview for the Red Door Series Podcast
January 2021
Interview for Urban Omnibus' Dispatch: Poetry for the People, in Public Spaces with Jared Harél and Nadia Q. Ahmad
November 2019
Interview with Rosebud Ben-Oni for her “VERVE {in} VERSE” column for Kenyon Review.
August 2019 Interview for the Truth to Power Show for Radio Free Brooklyn
June 2019
Review of “Three Rides”: “Art song trees grow in Brooklyn with three varied premieres” New York Classical Review
October 2018
Interview for Girls at Library
November 2018
Moody, Thomas. “Tracking the Borough’s Stories” Queens Tribune
September 2015
Harpin, Mary. “Interview with Poet KC Trommer” Pen Parentis
Radio Lab’s “The Poetry of ‘Elements’” for Emotive Fruition
September 2012
DeBenedetto, Paul. "Jackson Heights Poetry Festival Looking to Expand" DNA Info
October 2012
Leland, John. "Poets Gather in Exile, in Queens" New York Times
February 2011
Trapasso, Claire. "It's the write borough" New York Daily News
January 2010
Chard, Mario. “Five Questions with KC Trommer” Sycamore Review

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SAMPLE POEMS
AGNI “The Cyclone”
Best American Poetry “Off the Roosie”
Blackbird “Black Ice” and “Virtue”
The Common “The Couple”
CRAFT Literary “(up to now separately)” - Editors’ choice selection for the 2022 Amelia Gray 2K Contest; nominated for 2023 Best of the Net
Diode Poetry Journal “Final Harvest,” “Up,” and “Another Brightness”
LitHub “First Map”
MER - Three poems
Minola Review “Everything Falls Through Me”
Poetry Daily “We Call Them Beautiful”
Poem-A-Day “Self-lit”
SWWIM “Francesca Woodman (1958-1981)”

Spanish language translations from We Call Them Beautiful, translated by Elisa Montesinos.