KATHARINE A COLES portrait
  • Distinguished Professor, English
  • Distinguished Professor, English
  • Professor, English
801-581-7868

Research Keywords

  • Visualization
  • Science and Literature
  • Poetry
  • Indonesia
  • Digital Humanities
  • Cuba
  • Creative Writing/Poetry
  • Creative Writing/Nonfiction
  • Creative Writing/Fiction
  • Antarctica

Presentations

  • The Experimental Turn. Invited capstone. Vis4DH International Conference. Berlin, Germany. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/21/2018.
  • Forbidden Subjects: An Essay in Reckless Poetics.” Invited talk. Contemporary Lyric Poetry Symposium. University of Reading, Reading, UK. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/23/2018.
  • In the Way of Knowing.” Invited talk. The Inside-Out Conference, University of Winchester, UK. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2018.
  • Poetry reading, refereed. Other, Presented, 12/27/2017.
  • Should Poets Be Working on AI? What Metaphor Shows Us About Intelligence. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 12/01/2017.
  • Think Like a Machine (or don't). Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 10/16/2017.
    http://vis4dh.dbvis.de/papers/2017/THINK%20LIKE%20...
  • Think Like A Machine (or don't). Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 10/16/2017.
    http://vis4dh.dbvis.de/papers/2017/THINK%20LIKE%20...
  • Sounding Metaphor. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 08/10/2017.
    https://dh2017.adho.org/program/abstracts/
  • “Show Ambiguity: Collaboration, Anxiety, and the Pleasures of Unknowing.” #Vis4DH, InfoVis 2016. Baltimore. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 10/24/2016.
  • Developing and Sustaining Collaborative Research in the Humanities. Special Roundtable Session. Modern Language Association Annual Meeting. Presentation, Presented, 01/08/2016.
  • Great Writing Conference, Imperial College London (reading, July 2014). Other, Accepted, 11/15/2013.
  • Wordstock Festival of Words, Portland, Oregon (invited reading and panel). Other, Presented, 09/05/2013.
  • “Solitary Mind, Collaborative Mind: Close Reading and Interdisciplinary Research" (co-author, with Julie Gonnering Lein). DH 2013 (international conference), Lincoln, NB. July 2013. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 07/15/2013.
  • "Freedom and Flow: A New Approach to Visualizing Poetry" (co-author, with Martin Wynne and Julie Gonnering Lein). DH 2013 (international conference), Lincoln, NB. July 2013. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 07/15/2013.
  • “A World In a Grain of Sand: Uncertainty and Poetry Corpora Visualization” (co-author, with Julie Gonnering Lein) Lawrence,KS, September 22 2012. Conference Paper, Refereed, Accepted, 07/01/2012.
  • Copyright and Fair Use: A Legal Review and Clinic for Poets. Chair and presenter. Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, Washington, DC. Presentation, Presented, 02/2011.
  • Poetry In the Afternoon: American Poetry, with Michael Palmer, Christian Hawkey, Katia Kapovich and C.K. Williams. Discussion moderator. Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam. Presentation, Presented, 06/2010.
    http://international.poetryinternationalweb.org/pi...
  • Poetry and New Media: A Users Guide. Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference Panel, Chair and presenter. Presentation, Presented, 02/2010.

Publications

  • Katharine Coles (2021). THE STRANGER I BECOME: On walking, looking, and writing. Turtle Point Press. Published, 06/04/2021.
  • Katharine Coles (2021). Ghost Apples. Red Hen Press. Accepted, 06/02/2021.
  • Katharine Coles (2021). (Solve for) X . Turtle Point Press. Accepted, 06/01/2021.
  • Coles, Katharine (2020). "The Robot Emancipates Itself". The DIAGRAM. Published, 12/31/2020.
    http://thediagram.com/20_6/coles.html
  • Coles, Katharine (2020). "Platonic". The DIAGRAM. Published, 12/31/2020.
    http://thediagram.com/20_6/coles.html
  • “Flatten” (reprint), “Even in this Time of Our,” “Villanelle in Prose,” “Breasts,” “The News from Here” (reprint), “Pantoum in Prose,” and “Shelter in Space.”. Published, 12/2020.
  • Coles, Katharine (2020). “-philia” . Ocean State Review. Accepted, 11/2020.
  • Coles, Katharine (2020). GHOST APPLE (poems). Red Hen Press. Accepted, 11/2020.
  • Coles, Katharine (2020). "We're All Afraid of the Dark". TEXT (special issue: The Incompleteness Book). Published, 11/2020.
  • Coles, Katharine (2020). "Flatten". TEXT (special issue: The Incompleteness Book). Published, 11/2020.
  • Coles, Katharine (2020). "Invisible". Gargoyle. Accepted, 09/2020.
  • Coles, Katharine (2020). "Uncanny". Gargoyle. Accepted, 09/2020.
  • Coles, Katharine (2020). "Magnolia". Gargoyle. Accepted, 09/2020.
  • Coles, Katharine (2020). "Animal". Terrain.org. Accepted, 07/2020.
  • Coles, Katharine (2020). "Worm". terrain.org. Accepted, 07/2020.
  • Coles, Katharine (2020). "Pelican Takes My Hand". the Fourth River. Published, 07/01/2020.
    https://www.thefourthriver.com/o8-content/2020/7/8...
  • Coles, Katharine (2020). "Bee". The Fourth River. Published, 07/01/2020.
    https://www.thefourthriver.com/o8-content/2020/7/8...
  • Coles, Katharine (2020). "Sick of People's Grief.". Sugarhouse Review. Accepted, 02/2020.
  • Coles, Katharine (2020). "Think". Sugarhouse Review. Accepted, 02/2020.
  • Katharine Coles & Alison Booth, Miriam Posner eds. (2020). The Experimental Turn. PMLA. Vol. 135, 180-187. Published, 01/01/2020.
  • Katharine Coles & Alison Booth, Miriam Posner eds. (2020). The Experimental Turn. PMLA. Vol. 135, 180-187. Published, 01/01/2020.
  • Coles, Katharine (2020). "Seven Poses". (pp. 67-8). Vol. 49/2. Seneca Review. Published, 01/2020.
  • Coles, Katharine (2020). "Sonnet in Prose". (pp. 67-8). Vol. 49/2. Seneca Review. Published, 01/2020.
  • Coles, Katharine (2019). WAYWARD: poems. Red Hen Press. Published, 06/04/2019.
  • Coles, Katharine (2019). Women with Flying Heads. Scoundrel Time. Published, 01/2019.
  • Coles, Katharine (2019). Another Disaster. Scoundrel Time. Published, 01/2019.
  • Coles, Katharine (2018). If the Older I Get, the Less I Know. The Hudson Review. Accepted, 12/31/2018.
  • Coles, Katharine (2018). Dead Matter. Gulf Coast on line. Accepted, 12/31/2018.
  • Coles, Katharine (2018). If I Had a Sister. Ocean State Review. Accepted, 12/31/2018.
  • Bradley, Adam James & Mennatallah El-Assady, Katharine Coles, Eric Alexander, Min Chen, Christopher Collins, Stefan Jänicke, and David Joseph Wrisley (2018). Visualization and the Digital Humanities: Moving Toward Stronger Collaborations. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. Vol. 38.6, 28-36. Published, 12/2018.
  • Coles, Katharine (2018). Missing. Poetry Northwest on line. Accepted, 12/2018.
  • Coles, Katharine (2018). Sestina in Prose. Poetry. Accepted, 12/2018.
  • Coles, Katharine (2018). If a Body. Assay. Accepted, 12/2018.
  • LOOK BOTH WAYS. Turtle Point Press, forthcoming fall 2018. In press. Published, 11/06/2018.
  • Coles, Katharine (2018). Moony. Recent Works Press. Accepted, 11/2018.
  • Coles, Katharine (2018). The Poetics of Distraction. New Writing - Routledge. Published, 11/2018.
  • Invited essay. Inhabitation: Creative Writing with Critical Theory. Eds. Domonique Hecq and Julian Novitz. Published, 10/2018.
  • Coles, Katharine (2018). Noisy Birds. Ascent. Accepted, 10/2018.
  • Coles, Katharine (2018). Dome with Stars. Ascent. Accepted, 10/2018.
  • Coles, Katharine (2018). The Poetics of Distraction. Routledge (special issue into book). Accepted, 09/2018.
  • Coles, Katharine (2018). My body steps into history, imagine. Image. Accepted, 09/2018.
  • Coles, Katharine (2018). Cento Considering Life and Afterlife. Image. Accepted, 09/2018.
  • Coles, Katharine (2018). In the Way of Knowing. Axon. Accepted, 09/2018.
  • Coles, Katharine (2018). If Dreams About Flying Are Really About Sex. DIAGRAM. Accepted, 08/2018.
  • Coles, Katharine (2018). Another Country. DIAGRAM. Accepted, 08/2018.
  • Coles, Katharine (2018). Multiple Exposure. DIAGRAM. Accepted, 08/2018.
  • Coles, Katharine (2018). Abstractions: ten poems. Recent Works Press. Published, 06/2018.
  • Coles, Katharine (2018). Another Disaster. Poetry Northwest. Accepted, 06/2018.
  • Coles, Katharine (2018). Curio. (pp. 627). Vol. LXX, number 4. The Hudson Review. Published, 02/01/2018.
  • Coles, Katharine (2017). Think Like a Machine (or don't). vis4dh.dbvis. Published, 10/2017.
    http://vis4dh.dbvis.de/papers/2017/THINK%20LIKE%20...
  • Coles, Katharine (2017). Whistler. Poetry magazine. Published, 10/2017.
  • Coles, Katharine (2017). Neighbors. (pp. 106). Vol. Fall. Seneca Review. Published, 09/15/2017.
  • Coles, Katharine (2017). Solve for X. (pp. 1-2). Vol. 7, number 1. Ocean City Review. Published, 09/2017.
  • Coles, Katharine (2017). Pantoum at Twilight. (pp. 2-4). Vol. 7, number 1. Ocean City Review. Published, 09/2017.
  • “The Stranger I Become.” Invited essay. TEXT (Australia), forthcoming 2017. Published, 06/2017.
  • “Re-spatialization of time series plots.” A. Abdul-Rahman, S. Walton, K. Bemis, J. Gonnering Lein, K. Coles, D. Silver, and M. Chen. Information Visualization, Sage Journal, Forthcoming 2017. Accepted, 11/01/2016.
  • “Sounding and Seeing.” Invited lecture. Poetry on the Move Poetry Festival, International Poetry Studies Institute, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia. September 8, 2015. Adapted for print: Axon C1, September 2016. Published, 09/30/2016.
  • “No End to Happiness.” Ascent. Published, 09/18/2016.
    http://www.readthebestwriting.com/no-end-to-happin...
  • “In the Garden” (poem, reprint). Axon C1. Published, 09/14/2016.
    http://axonjournal.com.au/issue- c1/garden
  • “MRI.” Cordite Poetry Review (Australia). Forthcoming 2017 (in press). Accepted, 09/2016.
  • “Endure” and “Fine Dining.” Gargoyle. Forthcoming 2017. Accepted, 09/2016.
  • “Whistler.” Poetry. Forthcoming 2017. Accepted, 09/2016.
  • “Thirst,” “Narrative,” “Lunar Eclipse,” and “Hawk.” Axon (Australia). Forthcoming 2017 (in press). Accepted, 09/2016.
  • Abdul-Ramen, Alfie (2016). Re-spatialization of Time Series Plots. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1473871616666395. Published, 09/2016.
  • Wayward, poems. Red Hen Press, forthcoming 2019. Accepted, 09/2016.
  • “Dog Days.” The Helicon West Anthology: A Ten-Year Celebration of Featured Readers. Star Coulbrooke. Ed. Helicon West Press, Logan, UT. Published, 07/12/2016.
  • “ Cleo at Fourteen.” The Helicon West Anthology: A Ten-Year Celebration of Featured Readers. Star Coulbrooke. Ed. Helicon West Press, Logan, UT. Published, 07/12/2016.
  • “A Confusion.” The Helicon West Anthology: A Ten-Year Celebration of Featured Readers. Star Coulbrooke. Ed. Helicon West Press, Logan, UT. Published, 07/12/2016.
  • “The Double Leash.” The Helicon West Anthology: A Ten-Year Celebration of Featured Readers. Star Coulbrooke. Ed. Helicon West Press, Logan, UT. Published, 07/12/2016.
  • “Dog Years.” The Helicon West Anthology: A Ten-Year Celebration of Featured Readers. Star Coulbrooke. Ed. Helicon West Press, Logan, UT. Published, 07/12/2016.
  • “A Dog in Time.” The Helicon West Anthology: A Ten-Year Celebration of Featured Readers. Star Coulbrooke. Ed. Helicon West Press, Logan, UT. Published, 07/12/2016.
  • “San Marco’s Floors.” The Helicon West Anthology: A Ten-Year Celebration of Featured Readers. Star Coulbrooke. Ed. Helicon West Press, Logan, UT. Published, 07/12/2016.
  • “Seeing in Verse.” Invited essay. New Writing, vol. 14. Journal publication and reprint as “Special Issues Into Books.” Ed. Graeme Harper. Routledge. Forthcoming 2017. Accepted, 07/01/2016.
  • FLIGHT. Red Hen Press. Published, 03/01/2016.
  • “Poemage: Visualizing the Sonic Topology of a Poem.” Nina McCurdy, Julie Gonnering Lein, Katharine Coles, Miriah Meyer. Presented, InfoVis 2015. Chicago, October, 2015. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 22, (2016): 439-448. Published, 02/01/2016.
  • “Poemage: Visualizing the Sonic Topology of a Poem.” Nina McCurdy, Julie Gonnering Lein, Katharine Coles, Miriah Meyer. Presented, InfoVis 2015. Chicago, October, 2015. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 22, (2016): 439-448. Published, 02/01/2016.
  • THE EARTH IS NOT FLAT (poems), Red Hen Press. Published, 03/01/2013.
  • Fault, poems, Red Hen Press, June 2008. Published, 2008.