My poems are objects of contemplative reading; they are tools for spiritual development, activated by the energy of your attention; and they are evidence of the most personal aspect of my own contemplative writing practice. It is through writing poems that I make peace with myself and others; it is by writing poems that I find satisfaction, surprise, and success. Writing and reading poetry has been my core spiritual practice since childhood, and I’m obsessed with teaching and sharing it as such!
Poems of mine have appeared in Tin House, the Berkeley Poetry Review, the Brooklyn Review, and elsewhere (see below). My poems have won an Academy of American Poets Prize and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
For a more immediately “accessible” medium than poetry, you can browse samples of my ongoing personal practice of contemplative nonfiction here.
You can see a list of titles of my self-published full-length projects (poetry and other genres) here.
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Some of my individual poems and groups of poems can be found in the following places:
Three poems for ZYZZYVA. Winter 2025. Print.
“Freedom.” Perennial. 2025. Print.
Inland. Destroyer. 2023.
Seven poems for A New Session. W 2021.
“Postcard [Vienna]”. Thin Air. Spring 2021. Print.
Dictionary of Saints. 8 Poems. Winter 2020.
An Argument. The Mantle. F 2020.
Hungarian Pastry Shop, NYC detail. Duende. Spr 2020.
Road Trip. Curator Magazine. Summer 2019.
Recuperation. Fugue. Spr 2018.
US 23 N. Foundry Journal. Spr 2018.
Five poems. Muse/A Journal, 2017.
Pushcart Prize nomination (“Long Swim”).
Colibrí. The Open Bar, Tin House, 2017.
Sarah Vaughan has a voice for these conditions. a perimeter, 2016.
Female Figure. Academy of American Poets, 2016.
Winner of the Academy of American Poets Prize.
“Consenting.” Berkeley Poetry Review, 2016.
Two poems. The Brooklyn Review, 2016.
Five poems. Contemporary Verse 2, 2016. Print.
“Extremely Pleasant With Doors Open.” American Chordata, 2015. Print.
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Kayla Krut 