Originally airing on February 5, 2022 from 7-7:30 on KGUA FM Gualala, this episode Cartwheels on the Sky features the poems and process of Marin County Poet Kathy Evans.
Kathy is the author of four collections of poetry: Imagination Comes to Breakfast, Hunger and Sorrow (which won the Small Press Poetry Prize), As The Heart is Held, and now her latest book, nominated for a Pen award, Trespassers Welcome.
A BA from Northwestern University and an MA from San Francisco State University, Kathy has taught creative writing with The California Poets in the Schools, Marin County Juvenile Hall, and the College of Marin. She also taught composition and essay at the University of San Francisco, and was poet-in-residence at The Headlands Center of the Arts and at Bennioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland and San Francisco. In addition, she is a graphic recorder for various corporate and non-profit organizations.
She loves teaching poetry as much as she loves reading and writing it, believing that is a privilege to see revealed the imagination and feelings of a child. She has an essay forthcoming from University of Iowa Press, entitled “Read Between the Lines. In her spare time she loves to swim laps. She lives in San Rafael, California, by the library.
