Kathleen Driskell is associate editor of the Louisville Review and professor of creative writing at Spalding University, where she also helps direct the low-residency MFA in Writing program. She is the author of numerous books and collections, including Laughing Sickness and Seed across Snow.

Other poems by Kathleen Driskell in Verse Daily:
May 9, 2009:   "Yellow Boat" "Lifted into dry dock, where the sun..."

Books by Kathleen Driskell:

Other poems on the web by Kathleen Driskell:
"In a Diner Somewhere in Iowa, I Imagine My Father Meeting the Future President"
"Seed"
"Cupid"

Kathleen Driskell's Blog.

About Next Door to the Dead:

"Each poem in this collection is very carefully composed and fully realized—line by line and poem by poem, this is a satisfying book. One of the impressive features is how it works not simply as a collection of poems, but also as a whole book that deepens and expands with each page."
— Maurice Manning

"I’ve always loved Keats’s phrase “the mighty dead,” but I never understood it fully until I read Kathleen Driskell’s quietly explosive meditations on life and death. There’s a somber beauty to these poems; in them, the dead and living visit each other easily, singing of the rich mysteries on both sides of the divide."
—David Kirby