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"In Everything Matters, her newest volume of poetry, Kathleen Kramer has used her own photographs as sparks and seeds for the poems which richly inhabit this collection. In so doing, she has given both poets and photographers and their fellow travelers a great gift. Poets will find here yet again her inimitable gifts of patient attending to what wants to be revealed along with the rigorous discipline of finding just the needed words to sing her subjects into being on the page. Photographers will discover that her photographs also sing when we forego the all too common descriptors of our efforts as ""snapshots"" or ""captures."" With her gentle and loving attention to each of these beautiful images, Kramer has taken us further into her own unique spiritual language of glory and praise. Having read and re-read this volume with the slowness needed, we come to see poem and image as together doing what all classic religious Icons do: open our hearts to the silent center, where we can be still and lovingly know another being, even as we in turn are known and loved."

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For Kathleen Kramer, no moment is ordinary. Using her own photos, the poet explores connections binding our own worlds together. Her verse is infused with a homey spirituality linking the solid and ordinary to the ineffable. Everything Matters is a loving and evocative attempt to identify the signposts of our journeys. --Len Fonte, playwright and theater critic. Using her photographs as inspiration, Kathleen Kramer takes mundane moments and gives them heightened meaning--urging the reader to pause and reflect on the world around us. This is one reason poetry exists--to make life more lived. I feel like a better person for having read this collection. -Francis DiClemente, author of Dreaming of Lemon Trees: Selected Poems

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Kathleen Kramer's early years were spent in Pennsylvania's coal mining and farming region, where life was lived in the midst of a large extended family and influenced by the solidity of the earth and the rhythm of seasons. At 19, she left for the city and spent five years working in Washington, DC, for the Department of Defense. There followed a three-year stint in Maine where subsistence farming took her back to the land. New York state was the family's next home and Kathy and her husband Jack reared three sons, Andrew, Ian and Kyle, in Northport, a small historical village on Long Island Sound. During that time and over a period of 10 years of balancing classes, family and work, Kathy earned a BA at Empire State College and an MLS at Long Island University. Now, following retirement from the Boyce Thompson Institute at Cornell, she continues to write poetry and plays, while also supporting, in various roles, The Church of the Epiphany in Trumansburg. Everything Matters, is her third full-length collection, preceded by Planting Wild Grapes in 2016 and Boiled Potato Blues in 2011.

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