Kathleen Lynch's first book, Hinge, won The Black Zinnias Poetry Book Award. Her chapbooks include How to Build and Owl and Alterations of Rising, both in the Select Poets Series from Small Poetry Press; No Spring Chicken, winner of the White Eagle Coffee Store Press Chapbook Prize; and Kathleen Lynch Greatest Hits: 1985-2001 in the Pudding House Press Greatest Hits Series. Her poem, "Abracadabra", won a 2018 Pushcart Prize.

Other poems by Kathleen Lynch in Verse Daily:
May 21, 2006:   "Human Terms" " The albino calf stands..."
February 12, 2006:   "Weather" " What if the earth like any body..."
April 4, 2004:  "Throes" "The saint flung himself..."
October 30, 2002:  "The Hard Season" Rain-glutted, the stream..."
October 9, 2002:  "Appetite" "I came here hungry..."

Books by Kathleen Lynch:

Other poems on the web by Kathleen Lynch:
Four poems
"Letter to an Unmet Grandmother"
"Canned Food Drive"
"How To Build an Owl"

Kathleen Lynch's Website.

About Lucky Witness:

"Kathleen Lynch has a wild imagination and a gift for language as nuanced as it is musical, both of which make this long-awaited collection a pleasure from beginning to end. 'Today I loved everybody. Not in the generic / I'm-a-nice-person way, but actually. Acutely,' the moving elegy 'Fully Alive' begins, and as readers discover, Lynch loves life so acutely that the borders between the living and the dead disappear. In the marvelous 'Abracadabra,' Lynch becomes a master of 'my cold acquaintance / with how close one can come to death and not die.' That knowledge informs all of these poems, without self-pity or self-indulgence. From canned food to castanets to the dead brought vividly alive, in line after memorable line, with humor and humility, intelligence and grace, Lynch reveals herself 'a survivor, lucky witness / to the calling up of light,' calling up light for her readers with the wonder of these poems."
—Lynne Knight

"Kathleen Lynch knows how easy it is for 'the deep things / between people' to 'just float away' or be distorted by 'Tooraloora Lies.' Using 'only words,' here’s a poet who astonishes us again and again, as she finds perfect metaphors and images to tell rich stories and mine 'Ineffable' thoughts and emotions. Against the odds, Lynch is grateful to be a 'Lucky Witness' for her own 'Variegated' life and for the lives she has touched and been touched by. There is much joy here, quiet and vatic; frequently, wit and humor (try her oysters!); there is also pain, sorrow, even terror; and always compassion. We are lucky to have so true a witness."
—David Alpaugh