KATHRYN KIRKPATRICK POET • LITERARY SCHOLAR ABOUT POETRY SCHOLARSHIP NEWS & EVENTS CONTACT News & Events 2021 July 22 – 25 Squire Summer Writing Workshop https://ncwriters.org/index.php/our-members/network-news/12030-sw21-pr North Carolina Writer’s Network Appalachian State University Postponed January 21 / 6 pm Third Thursday Poetry Reading Series Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art Auburn University 2020 Western Carolina Literary Festival Virtual Reading 2019 “Now Then” appears in Southern Humanities Review. “The Nest” is published by the National Poetry Review. “Mother, Gone” is nominated for a Pushcart Prize by border crossing. The Fisher Queen: New & Selected Poems receives the Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry from the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association. November 11 / 5 pm ASU Bookstore–Faculty Spotlight Poetry Reading and Signing Three Top Mountain, Plemmons ASU, Boone, NC November 3 / 3 pm Malaprops Bookstore Poetrio Reading Series Asheville, NC September 19 / 6 pm Hub City Press Poetry Reading with Tim Conroy Spartanburg, SC August 16 / 3 pm Books and Beans Poetry Reading with Jennie Boyd Bull Little Switzerland, NC July 15 / 3 pm City Lights Bookstore Poetry Reading and Signing Sylva, NC June 19 / 6 pm Malaprops Bookstore “Through a Vegan Studies Lens” with Laura Wright Asheville, NC March Book Launch–The Fisher Queen: New & Selected Poems AWP, Salmon Press Portland, OR 2018 November Plenary Speaker “Betwixt and Between: Liminal Lagomorphs in Contemporary Irish Poetry” Mid-Atlantic ACIS, Villanova University, PA 2017 October Colloquium Speaker “Can Poetry Save the Earth? Gender, Class, and Ecology in Contemporary Irish Poetry.” Milligan College,TN April McIntyre’s Bookstore Pittsboro, NC 2016 April Speaker, NC Poetry Society. Reading and Workshop. Lenoir Rhyne, Lenoir, NC 2015 April Malaprops Bookstore. Poetrio Series. Asheville, NC. September North Carolina Poetry Society. Weymouth Center Southern Pines, NC 2014 February 13, 2014 High Country Writers Watauga Public Library, Boone, NC March 28, 2014 Clemson Literary Festival Clemson, SC April 24, 2014 Appalachian State University Bookstore Boone, NC May 3, 2014 Poetry in Plain Site Barnhill’s Books, Winston Salem, NC June 12, 2014 University College Dublin Campus Bookstore Dublin, Ireland June 12, 2014 University College Dublin Humanities Dublin, Ireland June 20, 2014 Poetry Panel Ireland and Eco Criticism Cork, Ireland September 20, 2014 North Carolina Poetry Society Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities, Southern Pines, NC 2013 March 6, 2013 Eco-Feminist Celebration Appalachian State University April 6, 2013 Black Mountain Musuem Black Mountain NC with Kathryn Stripling Bver and Katherine Soniat April 6, 2013 Press53’s Gathering of Poets Winston-Salem, NC May 14, 2013 Poetry Hickory Hickory, NC July 28, 2013 McIntyre’s Books Ferrington Village, Pittsboro, NC August 2, 2013 Yeats International Summer School Sligo, Ireland September 21, 2013 Malaprop’s Bookstore Asheville, NC September 21, 2013 North Carolina Poetry Society Weymouth Center for the Arts, Southern Pines, NC 2012 February 9, 2012 High Country Writers Boone, NC March 1, 2012 Women’s Pilgrimage Workshop Boone, NC March 16, 2012 American Conference on Irish Studies New Orleans, LA March 24, 2012 The Literary Bookpost Salisbury, NC April 5, 2012 Marshall University Memorial Student Center April 13, 2012 Marshall University Memorial Student Center May 18, 2012 Health Arts Network at Duke University Durham, NC July 22, 2012 McIntyre’s Books Ferringtion Village, Pittsboro, NC August 9, 2012 Flyleaf Books Chapel Hill, NC September 9, 2012 Poetry Hickory Hickory, NC October 17, 2012 Book Launch: Our Held Animal Breath LLA Appalachian State University, Boone, NC October 21, 2012 Integrative Medicine Conference Asheville, NC November 1, 2012 Winthrop University Rock Hill, NC November 9-11, 2012 SAMLA Poetry Panel, NC Durham, NC December 1, 2012 City Lights Books Sylva, NC Designed by WPlook Studio