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Kathleen Gregg's debut poetry collection, Underground River of Want, is a frank and unflinching account of devastating loss, bad choices, divorce and growing self-awareness. Be prepared to be heartbroken right along with the teenaged narrator after the sudden death of her father. Emotionally adrift and grief-stricken, the young girl launches a search for love and attention that becomes a destructive pattern in her life. After living through a dysfunctional marriage ending in divorce, the mature narrator picks herself up and faces the future with a new attitude and a strength that she finally realizes has always been there. The reader will cheer her along as life changes for the better; and the kind of love that has eluded her, now enters her life. The poems in this collection are evocative and engaging, lush with imagery, laced with musical references The last poem, Rolling with the Stones, is a joyous summation. Kathleen's poems will draw you in and then take you along on this somewhat biographical journey to self-discovery.
About the author
Kathleen Gregg lives with her husband and one cat in the beautiful Bluegrass region of Kentucky, where storytelling is as much a tradition as horse racing and bourbon distilling are. She mentored by Jeff Worley, 2019-2020 Kentucky Poet Laureate, for a year, through the Author Academy program at Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in Lexington. She is a member of the Kentucky State Poetry Society, currently serving as treasurer. Her poems have been published in Lady Literary Journal, Gyroscope Review, Workhorse, Highland Park Poetry, Literary Accents Magazine, among others. This is her first chapbook.
