# 9 SEED ACROSS SNOW
| Author : | Kathleen Driskell LOUISVILLE, KY |
| Artist : | Katherine Spears LEXINGTON, KY |
| Sponsor : | Downtown Lexington Management District |
Kathleen Driskell (1959): Seed Across Snow
Kathleen Driskell is Professor of Creative Writing and Program Director of Spalding University’s low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program in Louisville, Ky. She is the author of five books of poetry and has been published in numerous magazines including Southern Review and Shenandoah. Her 2009 best-selling book of poetry, Seed Across Snow, centers on tragedies surrounding her family’s home in a haunted old church with a small graveyard next door. These poems reveal how we are informed by both the past and present—lessons learned from love, family, nature, death, humor, sadness, and serenity.
Katherine Spears:
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I was inspired by how beautifully Kathleen Driskell’s poetry relates human experience to the natural environment. On this bench, I’ve included imagery from multiple poems in Seed Across Snow, focusing in particular on those that reveal a love of place and have a distinct Kentucky character. Katherine Spears, who received a BA in studio art in 2014, now lives in Lexington, Ky.