Kat Micari

I have not been posting here as much as I’ve planned. Honestly, this past year and a half have been really difficult for me. I am internalizing so much of what is going on in our country and the world, and it has been a struggle to hold myself together day to day and be there for my family and my co-creators and clients. I have not had energy to create extra work, and anything I do create, I…

I usually have 3 to 5 books going simultaneously, and one of the ones I am currently reading is a re-read of Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”. This quote I read a couple of weeks ago has been sticking with me and gained in importance with the escalation of things in the United States and the world. It is a long one, but worth the read. May we all become more comfortable…

I wrote this one a couple of years ago, and it seems even more true today. More of us need to stand up and say ‘no’.

I have been doing a post every year that reflects on the previous year and gives myself a goal or two for the coming one. And I have to say this past year, 2025, has been a really challenging one. With everything going on with bigger societal issues, I have become really discouraged this year and gone into almost “freeze” mode, numbing myself as best I can, which hasn’t been the best for my…

I am feeling this piece again, over 10 years later. I so desperately want better for the world than what we have.

I wrote this back in 2017, when things seemed bad. And they feel so much worse now. Lady Liberty and Uncle Sam Lady Liberty weepsIn the corner on the floor,Torch extinguished.Uncle Sam says“Smile! Don’t you knowYou are so muchPrettierWhen you smile?I can’t abideYour ugliness.”“Oh Sammy,” Liberty wails,“Your games have goneToo far,And I feel such painThat smiling is anImpossibility.”“You’re too…

I have been looking at my old art work trying to get inspired, and this mermaid illustration is still one of my favorite paintings I have done. I am going to spend some time this summer exploring with paint again.

I have been so creatively stuck (and stuck in more ways) these past several months. It took longer to recover from my month-long fight with pneumonia at the end of last year, and this year living in the United States has been round after round of “what can possibly be happening now?!”. I have done the work I needed to do, and I have taken care of my family, and in between I have just felt so…

I’ve been watching our national issues unfold this past month with trepidation, with feelings of impotence, and I have such a difficult time going about doing what needs to be doing, let alone finding space and care to create. I published The Little Book of Insurrection or the Poetry of My Discontent back in 2014, over ten years ago now. One of the poems called The Fourth Reich feels so close to…

It has been a rough few months for me and my family. I mentioned in my New Year’s post that we had all had pneumonia. On top of that, we had a major car repair, and after sinking in a big chunk of money in December, that car is now dead a month later, so we have to deal with the stress of trying to get a car loan that we can afford. And my godfather just passed away. His passing has had me…

Finally back! Got busy and then caught pneumonia from one of my kiddos.

Annual election day posting of the poem “Crumbs” It has been over ten years since I’ve started posting this, and if anything, I have lost a lot of hope and energy in that decade, but we shall see where the coming years will take us.

A Mother’s Plea I really hate that I am feeling this way again. When is enough going to be enough? What can we do to heal ourselves and stop this cycle from repeating?

Back with another poem, short piece, or song lyric writer assignment, using a list of English words and a random number generator, and the word today is a little bit of a tough one to get poetic about, I think. The word is otoscopies which is the plural of otoscopy – an examination of the ear and particularly the auditory canal using an otoscope. If you do this exercise, please share here so I…

Made this drawing of a feather for a friend a while back. It feels like a good time to share it here! I have always enjoyed working in charcoal. Something about the way it feels going onto the paper connects to me in a good way.