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Kathryn Smith Reads "Commencement Speech, Delivered to a Herd of Walrus Calves" by Matthew Olzmann

Dean Davis

Kathryn Smith is the author of the poetry collections Self-Portrait with Cephalopod (Milkweed Editions, 2021) and Book of Exodus (Scablands Books, 2017), and the chapbook Chosen Companions of the Goblin (Open Country Press, 2019). She lives in Spokane.

Chris Maccini previously worked at SPR as Morning Edition host and producing arts and special programming such as The Bookshelf, Poetry Moment, Northwest Arts Review, special features and more.