Welcome to Dr. Katie Batten (MacDowell)'s web site! Here you'll learn all about her artistic and scholastic work as well as new factoids. Get comfortable and start listening to music from all her albums as well as upcoming releases and works in progress. Spend time reading excerpts from all her poetry books, including upcoming release Love Amongst the Fishes or visit her two very popular blog series Chasing Zebras: Living with an Undiagnosed Disease (CHZ) and Dear Fishboy (DF). We hope that you enjoy your time exploring and don't hesitate to contact us or Katie directly through her Facebook page!
Updated February1, 2012
if you've got the sound on, the piano piece you are hearing is excerpted from the song "She Waits"
Current News
Read Katie's new blog series "The Seahorse Lady"!Legend of Seahorse Lady is slated for release on CD and digital distribution February 2012. Hop over to the music page to hear 2 excerpts from the album, including the string quartet "Legend of Seahorse Lady"
The albums Chasing Zebras and Son of Arianrhod have been compiled in the digital release Selkie, now out for purchase through CD Baby and coming soon to iTunes, Amazon, Napster, and other retailers.To Purchase, Click HERE!
Son of Arianrhod: Sonatas for Cello and Piano and Chasing Zebras: Sonatas for Piano and Guitar sheet music have now been released, see the writing page for purchase information!
Restoration Earth: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Nature & Civilization has now released its first issue, edited by Katie and Dr. Mark Schroll. To read Issue 1, Volume 1 click here!
Son of Arianrhod, the album, is now out. To purchase an advanced copy: click here! Katie sends her thanks to Brent for inspiring this album; she wishes you to know that if you read this--you are always in her feet and she thanks you from the bottom of her heart, the album is for you. Listen to excerpts on Facebook, Myspace, or on this site's music page.
Chasing Zebras: The Blogs January 2010 to June 2011 is now available from the publisher for pre-industry release, grab your copy. See the Writing page for purchase details!
Love Amongst the Fishes and Into Quiet are available through publisher and industry wide! See Writing page for details and links and to also read excerpts! Love Amongst the Fishes excerpts; Into Quiet excerpts.
Don't forget to catch up on all the posts of "Dear Fishboy" blog ("Dear Fishboy") and Chasing Zebras!
We've now added lots of excerpts from all of Katie's poetic works including the unreleased Love Amongst the Fishes. To read click on Writing to access the pages for each work. Or if you know what book you want to explore: Witness, Vestiges & Bones, Turning the Silver Wheel, Love Amongst the Fishes
Now Out! The re-releases of My Name Is..., Hitchhiker and 9 Sacred Pillars. Also now out Chasing Zebras: the album. Digital formats of My Name Is... and Hitchhiker are available under the album She Waits: A Retrospective; 9 Sacred Pillars is available through Amazon; Chasing Zebras will be digitally released in August/September
Read a list of Katie's favorite blogs on her facebook author page! To see what her favorite blogs are on both sites visit: Facebook Author page
Katie's 3rd volume of poetry Turning the Silver Wheel has been released! Keep up to date on her Facebook Author page
Just released A Study of Sandy Hook a collection of Katie's photography of Sandy Hook, New Jersey, and her reflections on this work.
Don't forget to visit the Facebook Author page to get the latest updates on publication schedules for Love Amongst the Fishes and Chasing Zebras: The Blogs due out Fall 2011 as well as stay current with the latest CHZ and DF blogs: Facebook Author page
Her commentary in response to a piece by environmental scientist Alan Drengson is now out in the journal Anthropology of Consciousness.
"Seeking the Well of Life" an autobiographical article is now out on magazine shelves everywhere in SageWoman issue #80 Healing Ourselves published by BBI Media. To see a sneak peak at the cover or get a preview copy, click here!. To subscribe to the magazine: Click Here!
She Waits: A Retrospective, the long-anticipated collection album is now out for purchases at CDBaby, iTunes, Amazon, and other digital music providers!
Check out her You Tube page for a range of her nature videos on seahorses and other creatures: Kate's Creature Friends Video Channel!
Her music video on the Gulf Oil Spill (be sure to listen with sound, it is orchestrated):
Passing on this deeply moving piece that speaks to the heart of the our need for other species (be sure to play with speakers on).
Katie Batten
You are gone.
But I am never without.
You are mapped in my memory,
having sailed you
countless times.
You are my ocean whom I have longed for,
whom I have loved from youth.
If there is ever fair weather on your seas,
I would return to you
and there remain
for all the days of my life.
But I am never without.
You are mapped in my memory,
having sailed you
countless times.
You are my ocean whom I have longed for,
whom I have loved from youth.
If there is ever fair weather on your seas,
I would return to you
and there remain
for all the days of my life.
- from
Love Amongst the Fishes
Wisdom Keepers
"God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools."
- John Muir
"We must be the change we wish to see."
- Gandhi
"May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder"
- J. Donohue
My radio show: "EcoChat"
