'There is about [Byer's] lines something of the art of the woodcut, a starkness made the more pow...

In Wildwood Flower, Kathryn Stripling Byer speaks through the fictional voice of a mountain woman...

Black Shawl emanates from Kathryn Stripling Byer's fascination with female ballad singers in sout...

In Catching Light, Kathryn Stripling Byer searches for the language of aging, for a way of confro...

Navigating the dangerous currents of family and race, Kathryn Stripling Byer's sixth poetry colle...