BIOGRAPHY

Although Kathy Paupore started writing poetry in high school, after many years as a busy nurse, domestic engineer and mother, she rediscovered poetry and has been writing seriously for three years.  Kathy has been published in Sol Magazine, Amaze, and the Writer's Hood.  She lies in Michigan with her husband, three children and two cats. 

Favorite Quote:  "Starts and stops are everything.  They are in themselves a beginning and an end.  But more, within them lies the only pleasure life affords," —Rod McKuen

Kathy Paupore is very capable of handling serious subjects, and concisely captures a broad range of emotions while passing along a healthy helping of single-instant snapshot images wedded with tight structure.  This tension creates a constant mood of breathlessness mingled with clarity.  The writing can be startling at turns, while also being almost moodily introspective at others.  She has a nice command of language, and uses unusual words without being heavy-handed.  While she combines various kinds of imagery, symbolism, points of view and shifts in language to covey complex experiences, at the same time she puts a great deal of care into word selection. Well planned alliteration and excellent metrics give sight, sound and action to Kathy Paupore's written words.  In "For your Convenience," Kathy Paupore presents a clever survey of various everyday windows, tied together in common theme.  Excellent economy of words in this wryly sarcastic piece that succinctly and deftly captures one of the underlying corruptions in society, as well as the overwhelming need to be in constant motion until the wall looms up ahead.  Excellent usage of brief sentences and short-to-the-point images to weave an image of frantic frenzy.  Blunt, staccato free verse intersperses with alliteration to give an excellent commentary on fast foods, fast lanes, and finally the mundane life style. The poem builds slowly with stanzas of interesting consonantal and assonantal internal rhyme i.e., horn/honk, voice/box/sharp, backseat/bicker/bite.  Uncommon use of language and meter shows great originality.  Good use of sensory words to discribe sound, internal pain, exaustion, smells.  Powerful finish -  "...until you just run out of road."