Kathryn Stripling Byer's Writings
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Poem
Dec.30.2009
http://howapoemhappens.blogspot.com/2009/11/kathryn-stripling-byer.html
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Poem
Jan.19.2009
COMING TO REST
Coming to Rest - COASTAL PLAIN
The only clouds
forming are crow clouds,
the only shade, oaks
bound together in a tangle of oak
limbs that signal the wind
coming, if there is any wind
stroking the flat
fields, the flat
swatch of corn.
Far as anyone's eye can see, corn's
dying under the sky
that sky that repeats itself either as sky
or as water
that won't remain...
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Poem
Jan.08.2009
FULCRUM PRESS
BIRTHED FROM SCORCHED HEARTS: WOMEN RESPOND TO WAR
(for more information go to http://ncpoetlaureate.blogspot.com/search?q=birthed+from+scorched+hearts)
FULCRUM PUBLISHING
Binding Information: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-55591-665-7
Pages: 376
Size: 6" X 9" X .875"
In stock
$16.95
www.fulcrum-books.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=6007 - 26k
Several months ago MariJo Moore...
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Poem
Jan.07.2009
from Black Shawl, a collection of poetry, LSU Press, 1998
FULL MOON
Full moon says look I am
over the pinebreak, says give me
your empty glass, pour
all you want, drink, look
out through your windows of ice,
through the eyes of your needles
observe how I climb, lay aside
what you weave on your looms
and see clouds fall away
like cold silk from your shoulders,
be quiet, hear the owl coming back
to the hayloft, shake...
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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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