"Welcome to Kate Gale's world. There are glass houses, a glass orchestra, sex on the roof. . . . Kate Gale knows her Bible and plays whatever music she wants on that musical instrument--but her música is always fresh, and it achieves wisdom."--Ilya Kaminsky, author of Dancing in Odessa
"The clipped jumpy rhythm of these poems with their sudden bursts of syntax prove repeatedly that Kate Gale possesses a poetic tone and pace all her own. She is also refreshingly out of step with today's poetry of self-absorption, for she is fascinated less by her ego than by the strange variety of the world around us."--Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate

The Goldilocks Zone (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series)

Literature & Fiction

Gale, Kate

Poetry

University of New Mexico Press

Review\n"The Loneliest Girl is ultimately the story of all the lonely girls determining their own destiny, Kate Gale's defiant middle finger to the patriarchy."--Charles Remmelkamp, The Lake\n"Humble, hopeful, and defiantly human."--San Diego Tribune\n"'Medusa never took sexy back,' and neither does our poet, Kate Gale, though she grapples with abuse and daily sexist behavior at home. She has survived a cult, and poetry is one of her best weapons against being used again."--Marilyn Kallet, author of How Our Bodies Learned\n"When I open a new book by Kate Gale I know right away that there will be bravery. There will be a new take on mythology. There will be beautiful, skillful, memorable language that stands up and speaks up. And the pages fortify, they give strength. The Loneliest Girl is a brave, honest, and endlessly compelling book. Bravo."--Ilya Kaminsky, author of Dancing in Odessa and Deaf Republic: Poems\n"In lyrics of searching vulnerability, Kate Gale's poems excavate the unresolved tensions of contemporary womanhood--its dirt and broken sticks, its dark caves and burning lakes of memory. These poems hum with ancient music ("The cherry blossoms sing. Of wounding.") while drawing fresh complexity from the guiding constellation of classic myths and folklore. The Loneliest Girl is a rich, luminous offering from a keen lyric intelligence."--Kiki Petrosino, author of White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia\nWho was more alone than Medusa? Raped in Athena's temple, transformed into a monster, and banished into a cave, Medusa may be the ultimate example of victim blaming. In The Loneliest Girl, Kate Gale creates a powerful alternative narrative for Medusa and for all women who have carried guilt and shame--for being a woman, for not being enough, for being a victim. She offers a narrative in which women are the makers of the world--in which women find their way out from the cave of the Cisthene and into a world where they determine their own destiny.

The Loneliest Girl: Poems (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series)

"I urge you to read this book. Kate Gale has a dream of justice and a wry sense of how hard it is to obtain. She confronts the wrongs of sex, of gender, of husbands and lovers, and sees how easily we confuse our desires with what is right. Somehow, in this process dangerous for a poet, she enters the garden of language and returns whole, humming." 
―Benjamin Saltman

WHERE CROWS AND MEN COLLIDE

Red Hen Press

Blue Air

"This book claims as its territory the indefinite spaces separating us: the ground where we move together and apart, the long curve desire describes and follows. Connection seems tenable as a jet trail, 'a seam, holding together / the two halves of the sky.' Kate [Gale] Harper belongs in the company of Lorna Goodison, Margaret Atwood, Lucille Clifton―all poets who write, with force and directness, what a woman lives. I think the secret of Harper’s strength is this: from the middle of all loss, all bewilderment, her poems aspire to the condition of dancing.”
 ―Angela Ball, Mississippi Review

History & Criticism

A bilingual English/Spanish picture book.  When Princess Riva is born, a witch predicts that she will drive away when she turns sixteen, and never return, but a wise woman says the princess will sleep and not wake unless she does so by her own efforts within five years, in a version of "Sleeping Beauty" set in an African kingdom.A witch predicts that Princess Riva will leave when she is sixteen and never return, but a wise woman says the princess will sleep and not wake unless she does so by her own efforts within five years, in an African "Sleeping Beauty."

African Sleeping Beauty / La Bella Durmiente Africana

Children's Books

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

In the Sixties, the Flower Children were making love not war, the Hippies were dropping acid and protesting Vietnam and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was demanding civil rights. Cults, communes and live-ins sprang up around the country. One charismatic leader started a cult in New England that continues to this day. This shocking true story tells of one girl's life in that cult. Brought there as a three year old, cut off from all contact with the outside world, the young Andie struggles to survive in a world that is both claustrophobic and frightening. In the wake of Jonestown, Waco and Heaven's Gate, we see a closeup view of life in a cult and a young girl's escape from one brave new world to another.

Lake of Fire

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Poetry. "The poems in Kate Gale's ECHO LIGHT do what poems should do—they give wings to darkness, shadows and bruises. We find ourselves lost in cornfields and then saved in a desert, a city, unsuspected places. Gale crafts poems that are 'curiously powerful' and offer us 'salvation from boredom.' The stories, the speakers weave myths of intoxication and sensuality, reminding us of 'words you aren't saying.' They roam from earth and snow to sun, stars and sky. ECHO LIGHT 'has invented the world' of poetry that we yearn for—a world full of imagination, music and flight."—Lory Bedikian

Echo Light

Red Mountain Press

The Los Angeles Review is a literary journal of divergent literature with a West Coast emphasis. Established in 2003, LAR publishes both the stories of Los Angeles, endlessly varied, and those that grow outside our world of smog and glitter. LAR seeks voices with something wild in them, voices that know what it means to be alive, to be fallible, to be human.

The Los Angeles Review No. 14

United States

The Los Angeles Review No. 16

Literary

"Doubts and secret disappointments are the knots that secure this hammock...stretch out...hang suspended...But beware: do not...relax." ―Melody Stevenson "I like [Gale's] gutsy sensuality--even snow banks have thighs...a dream like quality...rich with haunting images." ―Lyn Lifshin

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