by Robin Kirk | Apr 13, 2016 | featured, Robin Kirk
Shakespeare famously wrote, “All the world’s a stage.” A question North Carolinians are asking is why our state legislature is so focused on the stage that is public bathrooms. Full disclosure: I’m stealing this opening from a friend, the writer Jenn Bishop. While we...
by Robin Kirk | Mar 2, 2016 | featured, Robin Kirk
In a packed Page Auditorium on Duke University’s West campus, a distinguished older gentleman stood to speak. On stage was Jennifer Pinckney, the widow of Charleston Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, shot by a racist on June 17, 2015. Pinckney, a state senator, was leading...
by Robin Kirk | Jan 19, 2016 | featured, Robin Kirk
Heading south on I-77 the Sunday after Thanksgiving, I had what I call the Fancy Gap Dilemma. I’d been driving for many hours. A heavy mist erased the lanes. Paired with the early dark of winter, the mountains would have been invisible but for the ups and downs of the...
by Robin Kirk | Jan 6, 2016 | featured, Robin Kirk
My wonderful colleague Joy Olson, the executive director of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), posted this to her public Facebook page on January 6. It’s her account of President Barack Obama’s historic announcement on gun control on January 5....
by Robin Kirk | Dec 30, 2015 | featured, Robin Kirk
Sometimes, revision is just about creating new problems to fix (note empty card on Scrivener screen shot).
by Robin Kirk | Dec 18, 2015 | featured, Robin Kirk
I’m thrilled to announce the March 11, 2016, release of my new (and FIRST) poetry collection, Peculiar Motion. The book will be released by Finishing Line Press, an award-winning small press out of Georgetown, Kentucky. Please preorder if interested (more...
