Kathleen Aponick

Kathleen Aponick is a former teacher and textbook editor. Her poetry collections include The Descendant’s Notebook (Kelsay Books, 2020), Bright Realm (Turning Point, 2013), and two chapbooks: The Port (Finishing Line Press, 2006), and Near the River’s Edge (Pudding House Publications, 1995). She also co-edited, with Paul Marion and Jane Brox, Merrimack: A Poetry Anthology (Loom Press), a collection of poems by poets who lived in towns along the Merrimack River in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Her poems have appeared in many publications, including Poetry East, Notre Dame Review, Hollins Critic, and Paterson Literary Review. Kathleen lives in Andover, Massachusetts, with her husband, Tony.