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Kathleen Rooney

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Beckley, West Virginia, The United States
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Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, a publisher of literary work in hybrid genres, and a founding member of Poems While You Wait, a team of poets and their typewriters who compose commissioned poetry on demand.

She is the author, most recently, of the novels Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk and Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey. Her latest collection Where Are the Snows, winner of the XJ Kennedy Prize, is coming out from Texas Review Press in September 2022. She teaches at DePaul and her next novel, From Dust to Stardust, will be published by Lake Union Press in Fall of 2023.

68…

…is the number of poems that we–Lisa Farver, Kailah Peters, Eric Plattner, and I–wrote while doing Poems While You Wait at MCA Family Day… Thanks to the MCA for having us and to everyone who requested a poem! Stay tuned to the PWYW Tumblr for the results.

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Published on May 13, 2023 19:35
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Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

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Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey

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Live Nude Girl: My Life as ...

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Robinson Alone

4.47 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2012
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For You, for You I am Trill...

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O, Democracy!

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Where Are the Snows: Poems

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After Robinson Has Gone

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Something in the metaphor of the bow
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message 4: by Dean

Dean Pusell Thank you for being my friend Kathleen :))).


Anastasia Hi Kathleen,

great to be friends.

A.


message 2: by Ed

Ed Thank you for the friends add, Kathleen. Much success and good reads to you. Have a great week.

Ed Lynskey
Author, PELHAM FELL HERE



Daniel
Can't see you behind the book, Kathleen.


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