Dr. Kathryn Kirkpatrick

We live in such a beautiful place, I find plenty to do at home. As a breast cancer survivor, I'm a big advocate of local, organic food --if I'm not planning, planting, weeding, or harvesting our garden, I'm learning new ways to prepare slow food. I enjoy hiking with our two Shetland sheepdogs, and I practice yoga as often as I can. I'm convinced that in this historical era one of the greatest powers we have as individuals is the power to consume sustainably by boycotting polluting, unethical companies and spending on organic, Fair Trade products. Like everyone else, I grieve the changing of our climate, and i try to live and teach values that might help prepare myself and others for the challenging times ahead.

Website: https://english.appstate.edu/faculty-staff/kathryn-kirkpatrick

Recent GWS scholarship

The Fisher Queen: New & Selected Poems. Co. Clare, Ireland: Salmon Press, 2019.

(This feminist/ecofeminist volume just won our state’s poetry award, the Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry from the NC Literary and Historical Society.)

“Paula Meehan and the Public Poem.” The Cambridge History of Irish Women Writers. Cambridge UP, forthcoming.

 

 

Title: Professor
Department: Department of English

Email address: Email me

Phone: (828) 262-2910