Another Sunset We Survive

by Kate Gray

Book by Kate Gray

76 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 2007

About the author

Kate Gray's debut novel, Carry the Sky, (Forest Avenue, 2014) stares at bullying without blinking. Now after more than 20 years teaching at a community college in Oregon, Kate tends her students’ stories by coaching and volunteering to facilitate writing groups in many different settings. Her first full-length book of poems, Another Sunset We Survive (2007) was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and followed chapbooks, Bone-Knowing (2006), winner of the Gertrude Press Poetry Prize and Where She Goes (2000), winner of the Blue Light Chapbook Prize. For Every Girl: New & Selected Poems was released by Widow & Orphan Press in 2019. Over the years she’s been awarded residencies at Hedgebrook, Norcroft, Soapstone, Storyknife, and a fellowship from the Oregon Literary Arts. Her poetry and essays have been nominated for Pushcart prizes. She and her partner live on the Olympic Peninsula.

Reviews

[Julene · Rating 4 out of 5]

A collection of poems by a woman who has an ear for sound. She is a Dangerous Writing teacher who I studied both Dangerous Writing and Dangerous Poetry with. A few of her poems came out of her volunteer work after Katrina, they reach deep inside.