Kathryn Kysar
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Kathryn Kysar (born 1960) is the author of Dark Lake.[1] and Pretend the World[2][3], as well as the editor of Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers[4][5]. She has received fellowships from Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts, the Minnesota State Arts Board, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.[6][7] She performs with the Sonoglyph Collective, a poetry/improvisational jazz group, and resides in Saint Paul[8].
Biography[edit]
Kathryn Adele Kysar was born in Winfield, Kansas, and raised in Saint Paul, Minnesota[6][9]. Her father was theologian Robert Dean Kysar[10]. Kysar graduated from Hamline University with a BA in English and Anthropology in 1982 and from Wichita State University with an MFA in Poetry in 1985[6][11][12]. While in Wichita, she was a disc jockey and program director for the late-night rock show After Midnight on KMUW[13][14].
Kysar is the founder of the creative writing program at Anoka-Ramsey Community College[12], featuring one of the first Associate of Fine Arts and Certificate in Creative Writing in the U.S[15][16]. From 2007-2011, She served on the boards of directors for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)[8]. From 2012-2014, she served in the Board of Directors for literary nonprofit Rain Taxi[8].
In 2008, she complied and edited the anthology Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers at the request of the Minnesota Historical Society[4] with contributors such as Jonis Agee, Sandra Benitez, Barrie Jean Borich, Heid Erdrich, Diane Glancy, Denise Low, Alison McGhee, Susan Power, Sun Yung Shin, Ann Ursu, Ka Vang, and Wang Ping. As a result, Kysar was a 2008 Changemaker for Minnesota Women's Press for her "feminist anthologist of women’s writings about their mothers"[17].
Her second book of poetry, Pretend the World, was praised by Poetry Foundation as a "searing testament to being a mother in a world filled with monsters... Kathryn Kysar microscopes the world of modern woman/motherhood."[3] In 2011, multiple artists responded to her book in the form of art exhibits that were displayed at the Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts[18].
Kysar has been noted for her work across cultural perspectives in highlighting the feminine experience, specifically "a sense of unfolding continuity... the threads of distinct yet universal experience"[1]. As a poet, she is known for incorporating different vignettes and character studies into her work in order to delineate women's experiences around the world[1][18]. Her anthology, Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers, was praised as a truly diverse book in which "writers from rural and urban Minnesota who are Black, Native, Hmong American, Korean American, White, Latina, queer and straight" were incorporated fully[5].
Her poems, book reviews, travel articles, and essays have been published in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Minnesota Women’s Press, Mom Egg Review, Stone Coast Review, Great River Review, Permafrost, Midland Review, Mizna, and many other magazines and anthologies[11]
Awards and Honors[edit]
Kysar is a Writer-in-Residence at the Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts, winner of SASE's 6th Annual Poetry contest, the poetry winner for the Lake Superior Writer’s contest, and has been awarded the Diane Glancy Award for Poetry[11].
Kysar has been awarded the Artists Initiative Grant from Minnesota State Arts Board twice[19], as well as the Changemakers' Award from Minnesota Women's Press[17]. She has also been given the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Award for Excellence grant to develop an Associates of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing[20]. She has received fellowships and residencies from Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts[6], the Minnesota State Arts Board[21], Madeline Island Center for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities[21], and the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies[21], The Oberholtzer Foundation[8], and Tofte Lake Center. She was also awarded the Anoka-Ramsey Community College Foundation Grant for a travel study research trip to Tanzania[12]
Collaboration[edit]
Kysar frequently collaborates with visual artists, including photographer Laura Migliorino and artist Jauneth Skinner[22][23]. In 2011, artists Jan Elftmann, Philip Noyed, Jes Lee, and David Malcolm Scott responded to her book of poetry Pretend the World in an array of artistic forms presented in series of art exhibits[18][24]. Kysar’s 2014 recording of Pretend the World featured an array of musicians, singers, and poets, including soprano Maria Jette, poet Leslie Adrienne Miller, and writers Susan Power and Sun Yung Shin[25][26].
Published works[edit]
Books[edit]
| Title | Pretend the World | Dark Lake | Riding Shotgun: Women Write |
|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher | Holy Cow! Press | Loonfeather Press | Minnesota Historical Society Press |
| Genre | Poetry | Poetry | Prose Anthology |
| Date of Publication | 2011 | 2002 | 2017 |
Poems[edit]
- “My Identities” and “Nocturne.” The Mollyhouse
- "Photograph: Little League Practice.” The Under Review, Issue 5
- “At Sunset: Iraq, 2004.” Mizna
- “The Burden” The Mom Egg Review, vol. 12
- “Press/Three Fragments on Prom" Revolver
- "Break/fast." Revolver
- “Crawling Out.” Stone Coast Review
- "After You Leave" Voice Mail Poems
- "Lake Superior: Three Scenes of Summer" About Place Journal
- “Dream Poem.” It Starts with Hope: Writing and Images Donated to the Center for Victims of Torture
- “Warming the Factory.” The Walls Can Read. The Soap Factory and Talking Image Connection
- “First Kiss.” Red Bird Press
- “Escape from Paradise, Iowa." Good Poems, American Places
- “The Day Ten People Died at Red Lake.” Poetry City. USA, Volume One
Non-Fiction[edit]
- “Minnesota Summer Camp: A Love Story Starring My Two Children.” 10,000 Takes. Minneapolis Star Tribune.
- “Thank You for Calling the Radisson, Saint Paul.” Saint Paul Almanac 2014.
- “Running Away from Home.” The Family Business. Walker Art Center Field Guide.
- "Building Your Two Year Creative Writing Program" AWP Two-year College Creative Writing Caucus
- “Long, Straight Hair.” Minnesota Women’s Press
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Playing "Pretend" with poet Kathryn Kysar". Knight Foundation. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ↑ "What We're Reading: Kathryn Kysar | Hazel & Wren". Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Foundation, Poetry (2022-05-10). "Whatchu Reading...? by Rigoberto González". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "2008 Changemaker: Kathryn Kysar's "Riding Shotgun"". Minnesota Women's Press. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "A Literary Feast: "Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers"". Mn Artists. 2008-04-15. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 "Kathryn Kysar: Author Information". www.kathrynkysar.com. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
- ↑ Thaoworra. "Poet to Poet: Kathryn Kysar". Twin Cities Daily Planet. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 "AWP: Directory of Members". www.awpwriter.org. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
- ↑ beerlit (2019-08-01). "Episode #4: Kathryn Kysar | Books & Brews Podcast". Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ↑ "Kysar Remembered for Scholarship, Humanity | Emory University | Atlanta, GA". candler.emory.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 "Kathryn Kysar". Poets & Writers. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 "English Kate Kysar - Anoka Ramsey Community College". Anoka-Ramsey. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
- ↑ "KMUW After-Midnight (R.I.P)". ms-my.facebook.com (in Bahasa Melayu). Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ↑ "KMUW Radio - The After Midnight Hour (1986) - Progressive Rock Music Forum". www.progarchives.com. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ↑ "Anoka-Ramsey Community College announces new Creative Writing certificate - Anoka Ramsey Community College". Anoka-Ramsey. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ↑ "AWP: Guide to Writing Programs". www.awpwriter.org. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 "Legacy Story: Changemakers 1989-2020". Minnesota Women's Press. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 "Many voices "Pretend the World" in a collaborative new audio poetry project led by Kathryn Kysar". Knight Foundation. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ↑ "Minnesota State Arts Board". www.arts.state.mn.us. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
- ↑ "Minnesota State - Creative Writing at Anoka-Ramsey Community College". www.minnstate.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 "Kathryn Kysar | The Loft Literary Center". loft.org. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
- ↑ "It's some of the best art you ever read and the most interesting poetry you ever saw". Twin Cities. 2011-08-18. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ↑ "Kathryn Kysar: Links". www.kathrynkysar.com. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ↑ "And now, 'Pretend the World,' the CD version". Star Tribune. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ↑ Hertzel, Laurie. "You will not want to miss Kate Kysar's "strange and wonderful" poetry reading". Star Tribune. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ↑ Combs, Marianne. "Call and response: poetry transformed into art". State of the Arts. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
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