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# Kathryn Stripling Byer

(1944–2017)   Poet

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Kathryn Stripling Byer was a poet.

## Quick Facts About Kathryn Stripling Byer

Born November 25, 1944

Died June 5, 2017

Profession Poet

## About Kathryn Stripling Byer

American poet (1944-2017)... \| Kathryn Stripling Byer, also called Kay Byer, was an American poet and teacher. She was named by Governor Mike Easley as the fifth North Carolina Poet Laureate from 2005 to 2009. She was the first woman to hold the position.

##  Quotes by Kathryn Stripling Byer

> [The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathryn-stripling-byer/the-poems-in-katherine-soniat-s-new-collection-the-swing-girl-weave/)

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                        "text": "The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of the trod-upon world. These poems eddy and pool in unpredictable and often surprising ways, much as the mind moves in its twilight state between waking and sleep. The fluidity of their cadence and the luminosity of their imagery carry the reader to the wellspring of poetry itself, that deep delight of which Robert Penn Warren spoke, whose source is, in Soniat's words, 'beauty on its way to being mystery.'",
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