I Will Not Kick My Friends

Poetry. I WILL NOT KICK MY FRIENDS by Kathleen Winter is one of the winners of the 17th Annual Elixir Press Poetry Awards. Contest judge, Jane Satterfield, had this to say about I WILL NOT KICK MY FRIENDS: Sparkling, satirical, and highly referential, Winter's poems offer deep rewards. They consistently resist scholarly insularity, and the overall effect is a refreshingly choral, intoxicating verse. Bob Hicok said this: Kathleen Winter is unusually attuned to the intersection of the imagined and the common place. She weaves her loves -- personal, artistic, intellectual -- into her daily life, making this a book of passionate intimacies. Kathleen's attitude -- her appetite -- is made clear by her vision of Eve in the poem, 'Noir' -- 'He offered me the apple -- / what could I do?' This is a wonderful book.