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Kathleen McCoy on Poetry

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I’m a poet, a professor, a mother, a wife, a bit of an activist, a lover of the word at https://kathleenmccoy.wordpress.com. Poetry books include Ringing the Changes (Finishing Line Press, 2019), Green and Burning, Glas Agus a Dho (Word Tech, 2016) and More Water Than Words (chapbook, Finishing Line Press, 2017). Books are available from the publishers or Amazon, or order from your local bookseller.

Author: Kathleen McCoy

  • McCoy reads from new poetry title, “Ringing the Changes” on March 24

    McCoy reads from new poetry title, “Ringing the Changes” on March 24

    Thanks to the Adirondack Center for Writing for their support of writers in the Adirondack region. Here is their article on my forthcoming publication. Kathleen McCoy will read from her upcoming book Ringing the Changes (Finishing Line Press) on Sunday, March 24, 4:00-5:30, at First Baptist Church of Glens Falls, 100 Maple Street, Glens Falls, NY…

  • Ringing the Changes

          Update on forthcoming title Ringing the Changes: Preorder ship date has been moved to June 7th if you get your preorder in by April 12th. I’m deeply grateful to Finishing Line Press for publishing my second full-length collection, a decade in the making. I’m also humbled by the generous reviews of Ringing…

  • Planning the Writing Year

    I’ve decided my strategy for accomplishing my multiple goals will rely upon my old three-legged stool: the sacred space-time of writing, the support of my family and writing group, and a newly revised set of ideals. If thinking about your writing goals for the new year evokes feelings as distinct as squirreliness and torpor, if…

  • Puzzles & Playthings

    At a recent retreat with my intrepid writers’ group, I was advised that my prime directive in writing for the remainder of the year would be to “Play.” (This was uttered by the beloved poet to whom I’d given identical advice a few years ago when she was the one stressing over a precipitous deadline,…

  • These Winter Sundays

    These Winter Sundays

      These winter Sundays, when snow mounds, temperatures plummet, and spirits sag a bit, I renew my appreciation of spirit lifters, chief among which are the Women of Mass Dissemination, my writers’ group of the past decade. We meet monthly, go on a weekend retreat twice a year to write, and hold each others’ multicolor…

  • Book Fair Season

      To smell damp leaves, feel the crisp cheek-brush of November breeze and enter a grand old hotel full of books–poetry, novels, children’s books, travel books, regional books, genre fiction and more–well, it’s difficult to think of a better way to spend a weekend day. Especially in a small town. This Sunday, November 5, join…

  • When To Say No[t]

    Angela Nardin sings “The Nearness of You” by Ned Washington and Hoagey Carmichael at Hudson River Music Hall on September 17, 2017 It’s not always the evanescent wonder of words that entices readers. It’s just knowing when to say “no[t].” It wasn’t just Hoagey Carmichael’s ear for a tune that made “The Nearness of You”…

  • 100 Thousand Poets for Change: Global, Grassroots Arts and Social Advocacy

  • CALLING ALL POETS, WRITERS, ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS: We need your most passionate work by Jamie Dedes

    Originally posted on Jamie Dedes' THE POET BY DAY Webzine: We invite you share your most passionate works expressing kindness and human connection and the ways that together we might heal the degradation and devastation of wars and genocides; the heartbreak of refugees living in limbo; the desolation of hunger and famine and environmental catastrophes; the…

  • Local Event: 100 Thousands Poets for Change

    Local Event: 100 Thousands Poets for Change

    It’s time again for 100 Thousand Poets for Change. Don’t we need it. 09/30/2017 – 2:30pm to 5:30pmPoetry/Fiction/Creative NonfictionReading/Performance 100 Thousand Poets for Change is a global grassroots movement to celebrate the arts, social justice, nonviolent resistance, peace, and environmental sustainability. SUNY Adirondack will host a reading/performance including local published poets at 2:30 and Paul Pines (poet/multi-genre writer)…