Kansas Poet Pens Pandemic Verse

Culture for our beloved late night d-bag readers who might not know it but could enjoy this poet . . .

About the author: Wyatt Townley is Poet Laureate of Kansas Emerita, and her most recent book of poems is “Rewriting the Body.” Her work has been read on NPR, featured in “American Life in Poetry,” and published widely in journals from “The Paris Review” to “Newsweek.”

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Poem: 'Pandemic' - KC STUDIO

Wyatt says this poem was as tricky to write as a villanelle. Her work has been read on NPR, featured in "American Life in Poetry," and published in journals including New Letters, The Paris Review, and The Yale Review. Her latest book of poems, Rewriting the Body, was hailed by Nimrod International Journal as "required reading for lovers of poetry."