Kathryn Kerr Mailing Address: 608 E. Front Street Bloomington, IL 61701 County: McLean E-mail: kkerr@ilstu.edu Phone numbers: 309-438-7060 309-310-9981 Genre: poetry/nonfiction

Periodical Publications:

• Diner, Vol. 4, No. 2, Fall/Winter 2004, "Lightning"
• Reed Magazine, Vol. 57, 2003, "Blackholes/Wormholes"
• Kerf, 2002, "Firewood" and "Snow Goose Taxonomy"
• Dust and Fire, Volume 16, 2002, "Aunt Rose's Photograph and Her Recollection of the River" and "Regeneration"
• Drought: A Literary Review No. 5, 2002, "My Father", Why Charlotte Left Her First Love", "Fidelity", "Either" and "Reflection"
• Ascent, Volume 25, No. 3, Spring 2001, "The Spring You Are Told You Have Cancer"
• Seeding the Snow, Fall 2000, Vol. 4, No. 2, "October" and "Ferne Clyffe"
• Seeding the Snow, Spring 2000, Vol. 4, No. 1, "Map", "Woodcocks", and "Of Art"
• ROPES (Review of Post Graduate English Studies, NIU Galway), 1999 Volume 8 "Recognition" and "At Trail of Tears State Park"
• River Styx, 1999, #54 "In the Cafe"
• Meridian, Vol.1, #2, Fall 1998 "Why Mrs. Keller Had Her Late Husband's Dog Shot" and 'Why Daisy Bobbed Her Hair"
• ROPES (Review of Post Graduate English Studies, NIU Galway), 1998, Volume 7 "Daily Post-Modern Arse Poetica" and "Fin de Siecle"
• Tamaqua, Volume 6, Number 2, Winter 1998, "Funeral" and "Sunday".
• Illinois Writers Review, 1994, "The Goddess"
• Mississippi Valley Review, Volume 19, No. 2, Spring-Summer 1990, "Clock" and "Lament for the Wabash Valley"
• Thema 1990, Vol. 2, No. 2, "Porcelain"
• Thema 1990, Vol. 2, No. 4, "Bertie Recalls a Cousin in Nebraska"
• And many earlier poems
  

Book Publications:

• First Frost, with photographs by Raymond Bial, Stormline
  Press, Urbana, IL, 1984, 48p.
• Equinox, Red Herring Press, Urbana, IL, 1979, 24p.
• Coneflower, Tenement Press, Urbana, IL, 1977, 24p.

Anthologies:

• Guler, Kathleen C., ed. The Spring of Nine Hazels: Tales of Celtic Heritage,
  Bardsong Press, Steamboat Springs, CO, 2004. "Cork"
• Schecter, Rod, and Jessica Lynn Myers, ed. "Owls" in Survivor Stories. Rivanna
• Health Publications, Charlottesville, VA, 2003 (personal essay)
• Kirk, Kathleen, ed. Illinois-Where We Live. Chicago:  Rhino Press, 2003. "Cindy
• Sue's Bible and Bait Shop" and "Advent".
• Nye, Naomi Shihab, and Paul B. Janeczko, ed. I Feel a Little Jumpy Around
• You, a Book of Her Poems and His Poems Collected in Pairs. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996, "Touch"
• Taylor, Dena, ed. The Red Flower, Rethinking Menstruation. San Francisco:
  Crossing Press, 1988. "Rust"
• McGowan, James, and Lynn DeVore, ed. Benchmark. Urbana, Illinois:  Stormline Press, 1988. 18 poems
• Kincaid, Paul, ed. Dream South. Southern Illinois Poets, 1987. "October Morning".
• McManus, Glenda, ed. The Hungry Poet's Cookbook. San Francisco: Applezaba Press,1987. "At the Pancake House" and "Summer Tea"
  

Forthcoming Publications:

Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Honors:

• Diner Poetry Contest, Honorable Mention,
  2004
• Celtic Voices Poetry Award, Bardsong Press, 2002
• Pushcart Foundation Editor's Choice Award for First Frost, 1986
• Illinois Arts Council Literary Award to "Plums" published in Ascent, 1982
  

Recent Readings, Performances and Productions:

• Women's History Poetry Slam, Normal, IL. March 2005
• "Illinois Poems", a reading sponsored by the Ecology Action Center held at
  Illinois Wesleyan University, November 2004.
• Environmental Poetry, 305 Gallery, Bloomington, IL May 2004

Recent Workshops:

• "The Prose Poem" a seminar at "Tongue and Ink" an Illinois Wesleyan University poetry conference for undergraduate students, March 2005.
• "Writing the Sestina: A Teaching Demonstration" Illinois Association of Teachers of English Annual Conference, October 2004.

Present Employment: Illinois State University
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