Catherine B. Krause

'''Catherine B. Krause''' (born Benjamin C. Krause on April 8, 1985) is a poet living in the United States. Her work has appeared in Rabbit Ears: TV Poems, Gargoyle, Right Hand Pointing, and various other places. Beginning as a realist and a minimalist in her 20s, she has lately taken a strong turn towards surrealism, and personally views herself as a surrealist nowadays. Since May 2015 she has been writing under various pen names, and intends to continue doing this until at least May 2016.

She got her first poetry acceptance from [[Tipton Poetry Journal]]. Her first nonfiction acceptance, "All Indians Love Ghandi," was by ''The Literary Bohemian''. Her first chapbook, ''Classifieds'', was published in February 2010 by [[erbacce-press]] and taken out of print in 2011 at her request.

In March 2010, Krause was a Featured Artist at [[Counterexample Poetics]], and featured in anthologies of the best poems published that year by ''Children, Churches & Daddies'' and ''Foliate Oak''. She developed a poetry form called the '''quincouplet''', and her essay about it was the Featured Article in [[Galatea Resurrects]] 16.

In 2011 she appeared in [[Gargoyle Magazine]] #57, a magazine that has published many of her favorite poets. In 2013 she appeared in the first ''Reckless Writing'' anthology from [[Chatter House Press]].

In early 2014 she began going by the name Catherine B. Krause and started hormone replacement therapy. "Catherine" was originally intended to be the name she would go by everywhere, but she ended up choosing a different one, which resulted in her having two names: a poetic pseudonym and a new real name. Under her new name, she independently re-published her first chapbook, ''Classifieds'', as well as a new collection, ''The Leopard Slug'', consisting entirely of poems that had previously been published prior to her transition.

That same year, Catherine was published in [[One Sentence Poems]] and [[Right Hand Pointing]], and began contributing regularly to [[Uut Poetry]], a surrealist Tumblr blog by the poet [[Brooks Lampe]]. She moved to Washington, D.C. where she published a third chapbook, ''Ignore This Book'', and became a regular at the Guerilla Poets Insurgency open mics, along with the Garden Open Mic at Bloombars and various open mic nights at Busboys and Poets.

In January 2015 Catherine became homeless. She was published in [[The Lake]] and [[Star 82 Review]] around this time. In May 2015 she stopped writing under her own name, and began writing under numerous pen names. She is not sure whether, in May 2016, she will resume writing under the name Catherine B. Krause.

A de facto fluent speaker of the constructed international auxiliary language Esperanto who has largely severed ties with the movement and culture, she has nonetheless translated short works by Howie Good and Larry D. Thomas into the language, the latter of which is unpublished. While writing in Esperanto she experimented with Ci, a Chinese formal poetry tradition, and some of her poems in this tradition were published in ''Penseo'', an Esperanto magazine published in China, as well as at least one anthology of Esperanto Ci poems. She also reviewed a children's book in ''Beletra Almanako'', a high-profile literary magazine in the language. Her other second languages include Spanish, Hebrew, and German.

All of her poems are released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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