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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.

Tag: Poetry reading

  • Identity/-ies in Poetry and Art

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

  • Irish and ‘Other’

    The arts validate those who question and help close the chasms between us.

  • Six Writers at a Pub

    Women of Mass Dissemination: Marilyn McCabe, Mary Sanders Shartle, Kathleen McCoy, Elaine Handley, Nancy White, and Lale Davidson What could be more fun than a glass of beer or wine and a six-writer, one-hour reading of original poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and collaborations? If you’re at a loss, note that the six award-winning writers Women of…

  • 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

  • Trailer for More Water Than Words

    Keening from Kathleen McCoy on Vimeo. Chapbook More Water Than Words by Kathleen McCoy, Finishing Line Press, 2017. Thanks to Marilyn McCabe for the tutorial on using iMovie.    

  • “Green and Burning” Poetry Reading Video, Kathleen McCoy, January 4, 2017, Saratoga Springs, Caffe Lena

    “So real it sears my hands, this / drawing, Celtic oak of two minds . . . .”

  • Black Holes, White Holes, and Rainbows

    Poets know black holes. Our heads are full of them at times. As are our houses. And our calendars. Or is it just me? I’m focusing on white holes at the moment. True, to discuss them “we may have to go out on an astronomical limb” (PBS Nova, “Are White Holes Real?”); nevertheless, the concept of an inverse to…

  • For Love of Poetry

    I’ll be writing 30 poems in 30 days for the 30/30 Project throughout the month of July.  I’m quite excited about this opportunity because it’s a win-win-win: you can get a tax-deductible charitable deduction on 2015 taxes if you wish; I get my poems published on the Tupelo Press 30/30 blog page throughout July, and…