{"id":1056,"date":"2025-08-03T16:12:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T21:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2025-10-01T21:18:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T02:18:36","slug":"kathleen-driskell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2025\/kathleen-driskell\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathleen Driskell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>author of <em>Goat-Footed Gods<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>Kathleen Driskell\u00a0serves 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.\u00a0<em>Goat-Footed Gods\u00a0<\/em>is her sixth collection of poetry. Her other collections include\u00a0<em>Blue Etiquette, Next Door to the Dead, Peck and Pock, Seed Across Snow,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Laughing Sickness.<\/em> Individual poems and essays have appeared in <em>The New Yorker, Rattle, River Teeth, Appalachian Review, The Southern Review, Shenandoah<\/em> and other magazines; and been featured at <em>Poetry Daily, Verse Daily,<\/em> and <em>American Life in Poetry.<\/em><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kathleendriskell.com\/\">Author Website<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8cf370e7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/kdriskel_lg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1083\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/kdriskel_lg.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/kdriskel_lg-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/goatfootedgods.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/goatfootedgods.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/goatfootedgods-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goat-Footed Gods<br \/>\nOctober 24, 10:30am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-32"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1183,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions\/1183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}