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Poet Laureate Kathryn Stripling Byer, 2005-2009See Kathryn Byer’s blog! In “My Laureate’s Lasso” she invites you to read her thoughts on the passing literary scene and to join her in conversation by posting your own views and responses.
Photo by Chris English, UNCG Gov. Michael F. Easley appointed Kathryn Stripling Byer, of Cullowhee, to be North Carolina's poet laureate on February 24, 2005. As poet laureate, Ms. Byer served as an ambassador of North Carolina literature, past and present. She succeeded Fred Chappell. Ms. Byer participated in public events, curated features on poetry and other aspects of North Carolina literature for the North Carolina Arts Council's web site, and organized creative writing workshops for North Carolina schools using the state's distance-learning facilities. She also wrote poems commemorating occasions of historic or cultural importance. Ms. Byer completed her second term in June 2009. Click here for print and audio versions of Ms. Byer's poem, "Her Daughter," which appears in the November, 2005, issue of The Atlantic. The selection process for a new Poet Laureate will take place over the next several months, with the goal of naming a new laureate early in 2010. For further information, contact Banu Valladares. |
