Press & Publications

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

Featured Coverage

Best American Poetry Blog — "Pick of the Week," selected by Terence Winch (2022) "Off the Roosie" — 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