Kathryn Stripling Byer's Reading Interests
Favorite Books
Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko; Fools Crow, by James Welch, Arctic Dreams, by Barry Lopez, Of Wolves and Men, by Barry Lopez; A Room with a View, by E.M. Forster; Collected Poems, by C. Milosz; North, etc., by Seamus Heaney. Everything by R.M. Rilke, American Primitive, by M. Oliver,Outside History, by Eavan Boland, among many others.
What I'm Reading
Posthumous Keats, Another Beauty (Adam Zagajewski), The Spiral Staircase, MacNolia (A. Van Jordan), f
Favorite Authors
Fred Chappell, Lee Smith, Charles F. Price, Isabel Zuber, Rainer Maria Rilke, Barry Lopez, Czeslaw Milosz, George Eliot, John Keats, and William Wordsworth, Margaret Atwood, Mary Oliver, etc., etc.
Influences
Anything I have read since I could read that touched me and made the world more alive through language.
Kathryn Stripling Byer’s Bookmarks
About Kathryn
A native of SW Georgia, I have lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina since 1968. For the past 5 years I have served as NC's first woman Poet Laureate. My blog, "Here, Where I Am" was named one of the 30 best poetry blogs for...
Causes Kathryn Byer Supports
Any environmental causes to keep our Southern mountains and our planet from devastation. Conservation Trust of North Carolina Nature Conservancy ADC,com...
Kathryn’s Favorite Books
Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko; Fools Crow, by James Welch, Arctic Dreams, by Barry Lopez, Of Wolves and Men, by Barry Lopez; A Room with a View, by E.M....
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