Winner of the 2019 Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry

 

These poems explore the multiple exiles of living in a woman’s body; traversing boundaries of region, nation, and class; and confronting human violations of the natural world. Moving between the quotidian and the mythic, Kirkpatrick’s multi-voiced lyrics constitute a powerful quest.

“A younger woman would not have fought these battles, endured, reflected, returned and reclaimed as Kirkpatrick has done.  Her poems create a path and a lamp for those women poets who come after her.”   –Greta Gaard

“varied, cohesive, accomplished, and deliciously badass”   –Jeanne Larsen

 

 

 

 

Reading from The Fisher Queen
Virtual Western NC Literary Festival 

 

 

 

 

 

To schedule poetry readings, workshops, and talks, contact Kathryn at kirkpatrick@appstate.edu.