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A woman employed to inspect the dress of a corpse, to ascertain whether the law for the protection of the woolen trade had been violated by robing the body in any other material. —Anne Baker's [...]

A Review of Kathryn Stripling Byer’s Catching Light Catching Light, by Kathryn Stripling Byer. LSU Press, 2002. 62 pp., $15.95 (paper), ISBN 08071-2769-1; $22.95 (cloth), ISBN [...]

1. Dark sister I dread like a trap door, outsider beyond all good breeding and common sense, she knows I listen: her satin thighs slide over horsehair as she sidles closer. Her scent? The scorch [...]

Kathryn Stripling Byer is a former poet-in-residence and teacher at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee and the author of four collections of poetry, including Wildwood Flower, the 1992 [...]

Hunted to death for a five-dollar bounty, the wolf has been gone from these mountains a hundred years, save in the blood of some yellow-eyed stray with a fierce opposition to choke-chain and all [...]