https://www.katherinegekker.com/about daily 0.75 2026-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f655ba60341f5067d1fc13a/1612739879428-K3CBZH5VW1QSI3JW90DZ/27gdfKL2R%2Bqs9KM1JKTboA_thumb_6963.jpg About Katherine Gekker’s first full-length collection, In Search of Warm Breathing Things, was published by Glass Lyre Press in 2019. Dancing Girl Press issued her chapbook, O My Charmer, in 2026. Her poetry has been called “affecting” and “elusive” by the New York Times, and “ethereal” and “sensuous” by other newspapers. Her poems have been nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart Prizes. Gekker’s series of poems, “… to cast a shadow again,” was set to music by composer Eric Ewazen, and has been issued on the CD, Ewazen: Chamber Music. Hal Leonard is the publisher of the score. Composer Carson Cooman has set a seasonal cycle of Gekker’s poems to music. This piece, “Chasing the Moon Down,” was premiered in Washington, DC, on January 15, 2010, and is included on the CD Rising at Dawn. Musik Fabrik is the score’s publisher. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Hopkins Review, Calyx, Quartet Journal, Rappahannock Review, Delmarva Review, Little Patuxent Review, Gargoyle, ASP Bulletin, Broadkill Review, Baltimore Review, Poetry South, and others. A collection of eight poems, Childhood Poems, was published in 1974. Delmarva Public Radio’s Harold Wilson interviewed Gekker on Writer’s Edition #78. Gekker’s essay, “The Struggle to Ensure Learning Takes Place” was published by The Chronicle of Higher Education. She served as Poetry Assistant Editor at Delmarva Review from 2021 until 2025. From 2019 to 2021, as a Listener Poet with The Good Listening Project, she wrote over 150 poems for patients, caregivers, and medical staff. Gekker was born in Washington, DC. She founded a commercial printing company in 1974 and sold it 31 years later. https://www.katherinegekker.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f655ba60341f5067d1fc13a/1612449093623-4M3HTWXN2KP9RKQTC32Z/royal%252Btypewriter%252Bw%252Bpen.jpg Contact - I’d love to hear from you. Let’s talk on social media (links above and below). Or send an email to kgekker[at]gmail.com. https://www.katherinegekker.com/isowbt daily 0.75 2026-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f655ba60341f5067d1fc13a/9629dc66-157d-49ed-a5fc-013e62a0ed5c/N8L1x6k0TrOplTx9zjsu4A_thumb_6a3a.jpg In Search of Warm Breathing Things https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f655ba60341f5067d1fc13a/1610914875754-OEUF472QJV8FYCVV9FGK/ISoWBT+COVER+USE+FOR+PRINTING.jpg In Search of Warm Breathing Things Cover art by Katherine J. Williams https://www.katherinegekker.com/events daily 0.75 2026-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f655ba60341f5067d1fc13a/1613094672907-YPTLHFJOKAOQH10U9Z4G/Screen+Shot+2021-02-11+at+8.50.43+PM.png Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.katherinegekker.com/song-cycles daily 0.75 2025-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f655ba60341f5067d1fc13a/fe7587fe-bc56-4f5f-863e-5e954dd8a182/nat+phil+chamber.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f655ba60341f5067d1fc13a/1612186899985-UE6ZB34BZH175QKTXMVN/rising+at+dawn.jpg Song Cycles - “Chasing the Moon Down” Carson Cooman set Gekker’s four poems of “Chasing the Moon Down” to music for medium low voice, trumpet and piano. Fabrik Musical Publications published the score. The CD, Rising at Dawn, includes this piece and was released in 2013. “Chasing the Moon Down” is also available on Apple Music. These poems are included in Gekker’s book, In Search of Warm Breathing Things as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f655ba60341f5067d1fc13a/1612186706719-NO44QNA3FBM2J6390FOI/chamber+music+of+eric+ewazen.jpeg Song Cycles - “… to cast a shadow again” Composer Eric Ewazen set Gekker’s eight poems of “… to cast a shadow again” to music for medium low voice, trumpet and piano. Well Tempered Productions released this music on the CD entitled Chamber Music of Eric Ewazen, and Keiser Productions, Inc., published of the score. From their website: “This piece was commissioned by the St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble and premiered in New York in 1992 by William Sharp, baritone, Chris Gekker, trumpet, and Colette Valentine, piano. The poetry, written by Katherine Gekker, forms a cycle in which the excitement, power and mystery of love ultimately leads to the tragic and empty loss of love. The trumpet serves as a type of Greek chorus, commenting upon and highlighting the deelpy felt and emotional words." The album is available for download on Summit Records and Apple Music. 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With the repetition of “when, then, that,” I hope to create an unsettling and even ominous litany that will evoke the human tendency to torture ourselves with unwelcome memories and afterthoughts.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f655ba60341f5067d1fc13a/017603eb-a1ed-4fea-97a3-23bde5ca831f/KG%27s+head+shot+small+small.jpg Recent News - Read my poem, “Egg / Lion / Stone," in Quartet Journal’s inaugural issue (scroll down), Winter 2021, nominated for the Best of the Net anthology by the editors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f655ba60341f5067d1fc13a/1610914547105-YY7R605EB0FZG6VCH38I/ISoWBT+COVER+USE+FOR+PRINTING.jpg Recent News - Explore my poetry collection, In Search of Warm Breathing Things, published by Glass Lyre Press. Order online from Bookshop.org or Amazon. 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