Kathryn Gray
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I have never walked a blistering dust road out from San Antonio
D.A.Prince reviews Hollywood or Home by Kathryn Gray (Seren, 2023)
![Quellenstraße, 1100](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Quellenstrase-1-320x225.jpg)
Quellenstraße, 1100
by Kathryn Gray — February—and I was young. / Spring Street! My blue bag was swinging // in uncommon warmth, even the shadowed / shapes of pavement under awnings // seemed ripe with a peculiar kindness / and promise. The snows, at last
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Gathering flowers
In Conversation: The Friday Poem talks to Kathryn Gray and Andrew Neilson, founders and editors of digital poetry journal Bad Lilies