Kathleen Rooney

Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press and a founding member of Poems While You Wait. Her fifth novel Man Overboard! will be released by Gallery Books in Summer of 2026, and her debut picture book Leaf Town Forever–co-written with her sister Beth and illustrated by Betsy Bowen–will be published by University of Minnesota Press in October. She lives in Chicago and teaches at DePaul.

‘DOOM IS THE HOUSE WITHOUT A DOOR’ BY LOGAN BERRY: AN INTRODUCTION by Kathleen Rooney

Introduction for Logan for his Reading from ‘Doom Is the House Without a Door’ at Comfort Station on Saturday, August 16, 2025 –Kathleen Rooney Book launch playlist: DOOM UNLEASHED   Logan Berry’s latest book gets its title from the Emily Dickinson poem “Doom is the House without the Door—” whose first stanza says:  Doom is the House without the Door— ‘Tis entered from the Sun— And then the Ladder’s thrown away, Because Escape—is done— Logan Berry’s literary house also has no door, but not in the sense that one is trapped inside by walls lacking egress. Rather, nothing blocks this…

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