Tompkins Corners will welcome Kathryn Weld, author of Afterimage, her 2023 debut full-length collection of poetry (Pine Row Press), to the Poets’ Corner. An Open Mic will follow. She has also published a chapbook, Waking Light (Kattywompus Press). Her poetry appears in journals such as The Cortland Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, The Southeast Review, Gyroscope Review, The Midwest Quarterly, and elsewhere. She reviews for American Book Review. www.kathrynweld.com.
A writer and mathematician, Kathryn holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Graduate Center CUNY and is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Manhattan College. In 2013, she earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the Sewanee School of Letters.
Born from a practice of listening to the natural and human world, Kathryn’s themes are relationship and loss, being and mortality, and how this listening, through a variety of lenses, changes both her relationship to an experience and her place in it.
Following Kathryn’s reading will be an open mic. Registration will be available on-site on the day of the reading. All writers are welcome! Tickets are $10 and may be purchased at the door.