The Real McCoy

Kathleen McCoy on Poetry

Category: poetry

  • Beginning (Again), or, On Being Haunted

    The author reflects on their evolving writing journey after retiring from a long teaching career. They express excitement about a new musical theatre project, driven by previous aspirations and collaboration with a talented composer. The piece contemplates legacy, inspiration from contemporary poets, and personal growth through creative endeavors.

  • Welcome, Haley, to my website! Thanks for reaching out to me. I’m adding the poetry website you recommended, Playground Equipment.com, so other young people can enjoy it like you do. Keep reading, keep writing, and keep connecting!

  • Iโ€™ll be selling and signing my poetry books at the Adirondack Center for Writing, https://adirondackcenterforwriting.org/, 15 Broadway, Saranac Lake, NY on Thursday, August 17, 2023, 5:00-7:00 p.m. If youโ€™re around for the Third Thursday Art Walk, come say hi and put your name in for a free book. ๐Ÿ˜Š

  • Poetry Night at Caffe Lena

    Caffe Lena Poetry Night video with Prostko, Graham, and McCoy, Feb. 3, 2021

  • Holiday Poetry

    Join me for a holiday poetry reading on December 10, 2020, free on Zoom.

  • We’re all adding brushstrokes to a much larger mural than any one of us can hold

  • 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…

  •   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…

  • 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”…