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Oct.10.2011 - 6:49 am
PIECE OF CAKE: My Poet Laureate/Lariat Poem
  Here is the poem I wrote for my installation as NC's Poet Laureate in the summer of 2005.   Yes, we had Laurette's cake at the reception afterward.  You can...
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Oct.08.2011 - 1:23 pm
WHEN I WAS NC POET LAUREATE
At the State Capitol with Linda Carlisle, Dept. of Cultural Resources, and Cathy Smith Bowers, the new NC Poet Laureate
For five years I served as NC's first woman Poet Laureate, following the estimable and energetic Fred Chappell, a former teacher of mine, who turned the post into a vital one,...
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Oct.07.2011 - 12:10 pm
Kathryn Kirkpatrick's new book of poetry
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  Kathryn  is a poet of such thoroughgoing honesty that reading some of these poems feels like eavesdropping, they are that closely focused on the details of experience...
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Jan.28.2010 - 7:24 pm
Now Ivy, this is how spring tastes. This is the taste of spring.
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              Granny Younger came to visit me last night.  Stepped right out of Lee Smith’s Oral History and sat down for a spell, trying make me listen again to her stories...
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Comments from Kathryn

Aug.02.2009 - 5:58 pm
In response to: A Look at Playwright and Poet Franco D’Alessandro
Your Poetry series
Hello, thanks for publishing Glenda Beall's chapbook. Also Grey Brown's. You may find a feature on Grey's book at...
May.20.2009 - 12:55 pm
In response to: DON'T LEAVE HUNGRY: FIFTY YEARS OF SOUTHERN POETRY REVIEW
SPR's Ongoing Feast
Jimmy, thank you for your comment. It makes me happy to hear from you and know that your dad would be happy with this...
May.05.2009 - 9:09 am
In response to: READING WITH DOGS
Back from the Brink
Thank you, Rosy! This is near and dear to my heart, the subject animal shelters and euthanasia. Ace of Dogs will have...
May.05.2009 - 6:04 am
In response to: READING WITH DOGS
Well, Doggone it!
I love all your comments. I should be writing about dogs! Forget poetry. I send special Woofs back to Jack, whom I...
Apr.29.2009 - 6:10 am
In response to: PHACELIA, from "Blood Mountain," Black Shawl (LSU Press)
Rock On
Thanks, Marilyn. have a great journey. I'm working on getting my poetic mojo back---this one above is old. Time for...

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May.04.2009
COMING TO REST
Published by ForeWord Magazine
Coming to Rest by: Kathryn Stripling Byer Issue Month: May/June 2006 Category: Poetry Publisher: Louisiana State University 72 pages, Softcover $16.95 ISBN: 0807131350 In this...
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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...
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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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