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Join us for a poetry reading with Kathryn Kirkpatrick and Annie Woodford on Saturday, November 15th at 3:00pm. They will read from their latest poetry collections, CREATURE and PEASANT. Kathryn Kirkpatrick, poet and literary scholar, is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently, Creature (Jacar Press, 2025). Her work as a scholar and a poet cross-pollinate. Enraptured Space: Gender, Class, and Ecology in the Work of Paula Meehan (West Virginia U Press, 2025) charts -- through memoir, literary analysis, and interviews -- her engagement with the writing of this Dublin poet across two decades.
She holds a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies from Emory University, where she received an Academy of American Poets poetry prize. Born in Columbia, South Carolina, she was raised in the nomadic subculture of the U.S. military, and grew up in the Philippines, Texas, Germany, and the Carolinas. For over three decades, she has lived with her husband, Joseph Conrad scholar William Atkinson, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, where she is a Professor in the English Department at Appalachian State University. She teaches classes in Literature and the Environment, Poetry and Poetics, Animals and Literature, and Irish Literature and Culture. In 2016-17 she helped found, with other faculty, an Animal Studies minor at ASU. Kirkpatrick is at work on a new project, Animal Poetics, about representations of other animals in contemporary poetry from Ireland and Appalachia.
Annie Woodford studied poetry at Hollins College and teaches at Wilkes Community College in North Carolina. She is the author of Bootleg (Groundhog Poetry Press, 2019) and Where You Come from Is Gone (Mercer UP, 2022), which was awarded the 2022 Weatherford Award for Appalachian Poetry. Her micro-chapbook, When God Was a Child, was published by Bull City Press in 2023. She has been the recipient of the Jean Ritchie Fellowship, the Thelma Smallwood Scholarship at the Appalachian Writers’ Workshop, and the Guy Owen Prize by Southern Poetry Review. She has also been a Rona Jaffe Poetry Scholar at Bread Loaf and a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. In 2023, she was the writer-in-residence at Radford University’s Highland Summer Conference.
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