author of Goat-Footed Gods

Kathleen Driskell serves as the 2025-2026 Poet Laureate of Kentucky and as Professor of Creative Writing and Chair of the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University in Louisville. Goat-Footed Gods is her sixth collection of poetry. Her other collections include Blue Etiquette, Next Door to the Dead, Peck and Pock, Seed Across Snow, and Laughing Sickness. Individual poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Rattle, River Teeth, Appalachian Review, The Southern Review, Shenandoah and other magazines; and been featured at Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and American Life in Poetry.

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