Press & Publications

Selected publications, features, and coverage. For press inquiries and booking, contact kctrommer@gmail.com.

Featured Coverage

WNYC — April 30, 2026, segment “WNYC hosts Michael Hill and David Furst are poets, too.” and April 27, 2026 All of It segment “Celebrate Collaborative Poetry With Michael Hill and Morning Edition”
Best American Poetry Blog — "Pick of the Week," selected by Terence Winch (2022) "Off the Roosie" — Read
Epicenter — Featured Artist (2022) — Read
The Georgia Review — Summer 2025 "Kelly Ann, New London (1979)" and "Scene from the New South" — Visit
LitHub — Essay and poems, multiple features "First Map" and essays — Read
CRAFT Literary — Editor's Prize (2023) "(up to now separately)" — Read
NPR's Radiolab — Poems featured in collaboration with Emotive Fruition (2015) "The Table," "Osmium," "Molybdenum" — Listen
Poetry Daily — Featured poem "We Call Them Beautiful" — Read
Poets.org / Academy of American Poets — Poem-a-Day (January 2022) "Self-lit" — Read

Poems in Journals

AGNI — "The Cyclone" — Read
Blackbird — Poetry — Read
The Common — "The Couple" (for Lee Bontecou) — Read
Diode — Poems — Read
Mom Egg Review (MER) — "Self-lit" — Read
Prairie Schooner — Poems — Read
SWWIM — "Francesca Woodman (1958–1981)" — Read

Poems also published in The Antioch Review, Fugue, The Georgia Review, Octopus, Poetry East, The Sycamore Review

Anthologies

Say It Plain: An American Patchwork (Chautauqua Institution, 2025) — "Scale Shift"
Braving the Body (Small Harbor Publishing, 2024) — "Agency"
Who Will Speak for America? (Temple University Press, 2018) — "When We See"
Resist Much, Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance (Spuyten Duyvil, 2017) — "Gauntlet" and "Against"
All We Can Hold: A Collection of Poetry on Motherhood (Sage Hill Press, 2016) — "Up" and "Another Brightness"
Oh, Baby! (Creative Nonfiction, 2015) — Essay: "Up and Above Us"

Collaborations & Projects in the Press

The Layers — Album by Grammy Award-winning composer Herschel Garfein (2023), featuring the song cycle "Three Rides" drawn from poems in We Call Them Beautiful — Listen on Spotify
QUEENSBOUND — Collaborative Queens poetry project, Editions 1–4 (2018–2024), supported by the Queens Council on the Arts, the Queens Museum, Onassis Foundation USA, and Flushing Town Hall. Finalist, Creative Capital Award. — Visit
SLUMBER — Ekphrastic poem "through the pinhole, watching" in photographer Betsy Kenyon's monograph (2022) — Visit
WNYC × QUEENSBOUND — National Poetry Month partnership (2026), featuring public readings, a community workshop, and live recordings aired on WNYC's Morning Edition throughout April 2026. KC Trommer joined WNYC and the Queens Memory Project for a capstone event at The Greene Space. — Visit
Onassis Foundation USA × QUEENSBOUND — "In the Here and Now" (2020), a commissioned video of an exquisite corpse poem written collectively during May 2020 by poets Nadia Q. Ahmad, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Pichchenda Bao, Nana Brew-Hammond, Jared Harél, Abeer Y. Hoque, Joseph O. Legaspi, Robert Ostrom, and KC Trommer. — Watch

Select Awards & Recognition

2025 — Queens Arts Fund New Work Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts, for Paragones 2023 — Editor's Prize, CRAFT Literary 2022 — Featured, Best American Poetry Blog, ed. Terence Winch 2019 — Winner, Diode Editions Book Prize; First Horizon Finalist, Eric Hoffer Awards 2015 — Fugue Poetry Prize, selected by Kevin Prufer 2007 — Academy of American Poets Prize