poetry
Kristin Prugh has written and self-published two chapbooks and two full-length works of poetry under the pen name Anna Key. They will be re-issued with new covers and enhanced content over the next few months.
The poems listed below were published using the pen name Anna Key. They are grouped according to the larger poetic projects of which they form a part, some of which have been released in the published volumes.
from After Colonna: Contemporary Devotional Sonnets
Introduction & Sonnets 1 and 2 | Dappled Things
Sonnets 4, 19, 31, and 41 | Convivium 6
Sonnets 9 and 18 | Dappled Things 16, No. 2
Sonnets 21 and 35 | The Windhover 26.1
Sonnet 23 | Amethyst Review
Sonnet 29 | Amethyst Review
Sonnets 51 and 58 | Evangelization & Culture No. 9
Sonnet 86 | Catholic Poetry Room
Sonnet 100 | Catholic Poetry Room
from Notebook of Forgetting
from Iterations
Iteration | First Prize, New York Encounter Poetry Contest
from Heir of the Ruined Day
essays & interviews
Water Cools Not Love: A Reconsideration of Shakespeare's Sonnets 153 & 154 | Close Reading @ Slant Books
This essay challenges the received reading of Shakespeare's sonnets as celebrations of the persistence and ultimate triumph of desire over a repressive morality, arguing that the final two sonnets open the door to a re-evaluation of the entire sequence in wholly different categories.
Finding the Spirit: An Interview with Poet Anna Key | Aleteia
An interview by Michael Rennier of Aleteia about poetry, beauty, and reimagining the sonnets of Vittoria Colonna for the twenty-first century. Read Part I here and Part II here.
Poetry Beyond the Closed Room | Dappled Things
Taking her inspiration from Pablo Neruda, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Sor Juana, and Nicholas Black Elk, this two part essay makes the case for an alternative to what Neruda calls the "poetry of the closed room," and wonders what the examples of new world poets who have not only opened the windows, but walked through them, might offer for our present time. Read Part I here and Part II here.
These essays and interviews were published
using the pen name Anna Key.
Kristin Prugh (pronounced pru:) studied philosophy at the University of Chicago and creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2006, she converted to Catholicism and spent the next decade writing her way toward Notebook of Forgetting, which attempts in language as philosophical as it is poetic to chart the territory of her conversion. Her current project, After Colonna: Contemporary Devotional Sonnets, is a response to the fourteenth-century Italian poet Vittoria Colonna's Sonnets for Michelangelo, re-imagining each sonnet in a contemporary idiom. She has been publishing under the name Anna Key and her poems and essays have appeared in Dappled Things, Convivium, Evangelization & Culture, The Windhover, Lydwine, Amethyst Review, Catholic Poetry Room and elsewhere. She is co-founder of In the Wind Projects and serves on the editorial board of Convivium. After living off-grid with her husband and four children on a small sailboat in Florida for six years, she is now living with her family in Alaska.
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contact: info [at] kristinprugh [dot] com