The Company Misery Loves: An Afternoon with Kate Fox

In his Collected Works, the surrealist poet Paul Eluard writes, “There is another world, but it is in this one.” The poems in this collection set out to examine what it means to exist in those distinct but inseparable worlds—worlds that can cause both misery and joy for those who are time-bound, but can also grant infinite insight and wisdom. All the voices and stories gathered here intertwine and co-exist, revealing, as poet Irene Kinney writes, “…this unknown buried in the known.”

12 pm program
Free & open to the public. Registration required.

Copies of The Company Misery Loves will be available for sale & signing courtesy of the author.

About Kate Fox

Kate Fox is the author of The Company Misery Loves (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions), a collection of poems published in July 2024, and two poetry chapbooks: The Lazarus Method, winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Competition (Kent State University Press) and Walking Off the Map (Seven Kitchens Press). Her work* has appeared in Great River Review, Kenyon Review, New Ohio Review, West Branch, Valparaiso Review, and Pleiades. Her poem “The Heaven of Lost Limbs” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Michael Waters, and her poem, “No Word for Those Who Lose a Child,” was a finalist in Cutthroat Literary Magazine’s Joy Harjo Poetry Competition.

Kate earned her Ph.D. in American literature/creative writing from Ohio University, where she worked as an instructor, editor, and assistant to the president. After serving for several years as the editor of the Ohioana Quarterly book review journal, she now lives in Athens OH with her partner, writer and Steinbeck scholar Robert DeMott, and their two English setters, Katie and Patch.