Alum Katy Didden releases poetry collection ORE CHOIR: THE LAVA ON ICELAND

Ore Choir: The Lava on Iceland was published October 2022.

Ore Choir: The Lava on Iceland by Katy Didden (MFA, 2003), was published by Tupelo Press on Oct. 1, 2022. The collection features illustrations by Kevin Tseng.

From the Publisher's Website: 

Part miracle, part oracle, in these poems lava speaks “with the focus of a burning glass,” lighting lyric core samples through geo-historical and cultural texts about Iceland. Shifting the ground so “nouns are never still,” the lava reveals how language itself is a record of collisions: poem as matter, sound as forge, form as friction. And what does it mean to be human in the face of such ancient forces, especially as climate change unsettles the earth that anchors us? By the light of the “sphere’s credo,” can we, too, be remade?

About the Author:

Katy Didden is the author of a previous poetry collection, The Glacier’s Wake (Pleiades Press, 2013). Her poems and essays have appeared most recently in Sewanee Review, West Branch, Public Books, and Ós Pressan. She teaches Poetry and Creative Writing and the Environment at Ball State University.