Welcome to where I am, where my kitchen's always messy, a pot's (or a poet) always about to boil over, a dog is always begging to be fed. Drafts of poems on the counter. Windows filled with leaves. Wind. Clouds moving over the mountains. If you like poetry, books, and music--especially dog howls when a siren unwinds down the hill-- you'll like it here.


MY NEW AUTHOR'S SITE, KATHRYNSTRIPLINGBYER.COM, THAT I MYSELF SET UP THROUGH WEEBLY.COM, IS NOW UP. I HAD FUN CREATING THIS SITE AND WOULD RECOMMEND WEEBLY.COM TO ANYONE INTERESTED IN SETTING UP A WEBSITE. I INVITE YOU TO VISIT MY NEW SITE TO KEEP UP WITH EVENTS RELATED TO MY NEW BOOK.


MY NC POET LAUREATE BLOG, MY LAUREATE'S LASSO, WILL REMAIN UP AS AN ARCHIVE OF NC POETS, GRADES K-INFINITY! I INVITE YOU TO VISIT WHEN YOU FEEL THE NEED TO READ SOME GOOD POEMS.

VISIT MY NEW BLOG, MOUNTAIN WOMAN, WHERE YOU WILL FIND UPDATES ON WHAT'S HAPPENING IN MY KITCHEN, IN THE ENVIRONMENT, IN MY IMAGINATION, IN MY GARDEN, AND AMONG MY MOUNTAIN WOMEN FRIENDS.




Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Independent Bookstores

When my last book, Coming to Rest, was published, I was invited to read at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva, NC, my favorite bookstore anywhere. My good friend Joyce Moore is owner and manager; we go way, way back to student days at UNC-Greensboro, where Joyce was editor of the undergraduate literary magazine, Coraddi. A few years later she and her husband moved to their farm outside Cullowhee, because Allen had taken a job in the biology dept. at Western Carolina University. Their presence has enriched my life beyond the telling, and City Lights has enriched our community in ways that deserve more than one blog to describe. Our independent booksellers are always struggling to stay afloat, especially these days when the economy is weak. Go to City Lights' webpage--listed below in my links, and to the website for the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance--www.sibaweb.com--to see what our indie bookstores are doing these days. Then go buy a book, preferably a book of poetry, from them.

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