The Real McCoy

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.

Category: National Book Award

  • Peace, Poetry, Palindromes

    My latest effort for the 30/30 Project, “Raw/War,” is featured on the site today–a taste of poetry, peace, and palindromes. . . . I hope you’ll enjoy that and the work of my impressive peers on the site. I’m also gearing up for September 26th, when we’ll ask the world to think about war, peace,…

  • For Adrienne Rich

    In the memory of Adrienne Rich, one of our country’s finest poets who died last week, I offer the following poem, penned a couple of decades ago and revised very recently: The New Androgyne She will be like the deaf mute                                                 turned composer: ink will pulse               through her veins the color of half-lit…