Dr. Kate Wright (she/her)

PhD University of Tennessee/ MFA from ISU / BA/MA from Penn State/ Poet / College wrestling enthusiast/ Community Engagement Fellow and Activist

[Dr. Kate Wright (she/her) @KateWrightPoet]

✨New year, new pub✨ Yet another pandemic poem (featuring my dumpster, of course!), excited it found a home in @RogueAgentJ!

https://t.co/QLTNC8f25j

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A few years ago I probably would've said All Them Horses which is maybe a close second.

Staying Still is also up there.

[Dr. Kate Wright (she/her) @KateWrightPoet]

Starting all my classes today with "okay, so which new Noah Kahan song made you the most sad?"

🐛🐝🐞🪲

[Dr. Kate Wright (she/her) @KateWrightPoet]

My answer: Dan

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If you know me, and know me as a poet, really important question here: where is Jimmy?

[Penn State WRESTLING @pennstateWREST]

Showing love to our 2016 National Championship team ❤️
#PSUwr

[Dr. Kate Wright (she/her) @KateWrightPoet]

Ran into my high school English teacher out at dinner today and got to say hi and thank her for everything. Really wouldn't be here without her.

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You guys, we did it! Got my birthday wish! Dick Van Dyke is 100!!!! 🎉🎉

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Today, my football coach left one of my teams for another one of my teams.

This day has been long.

[Dr. Kate Wright (she/her) @KateWrightPoet]

They obviously didn't see me trying to kick the extra point at the college football hall of fame in Jan 2022.

[Jeff D. Lowe @JeffDLowe]

Been watching football for roughly 30 years and I don’t think my eyes have ever seen anything quite like this lol.

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Cyclone State

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Showed this photo to my students today because it brought me so much joy!

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Canvas being down is only of the slightest inconvenience to me, a person who set aside five+ hours today to get caught up on grading.

[Dr. Kate Wright (she/her) @KateWrightPoet]

Excited to announce that I won the David A. Hambright Teaching Award and the John C. Hodges Award for Excellence as an Experienced Writing Consultant for the 2024-2025 academic year! 🎉

[Dr. Kate Wright (she/her) @KateWrightPoet]

He doesn't even know that Iowa State won the first college football game of the year (except he does because I told him).

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Don't even talk to me until I've had my college football.

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Okay, I've been to the new baseball stadium twice now (that the hype died down a little and you can get cheap tickets) and it is pretty cool

[Dr. Kate Wright (she/her) @KateWrightPoet]

Okay, the new baseball stadium is cool and stuff until you're trying to make dinner reservations for after graduation and there's a home game and so parking downtown at 7pm is not going to happen so you gotta shift all of your plans.

[Dr. Kate Wright (she/her) @KateWrightPoet]

Just me, blasting Good Charlotte's "the anthem" while driving to my university campus to do my job in academia pretending like I'm edgy, cool, different, and certainly not like those other academics.

[Dr. Kate Wright (she/her) @KateWrightPoet]

As a hotdog lover, I find hotdog eating contests to be an abomination. A hotdog should be savored, it should be cherished. It should never be dunked in water.

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Listening to the new Lorde album while hurtling through the sky in a metal tube just felt like the right thing to do.

[Dr. Kate Wright (she/her) @KateWrightPoet]

"But I do not mean that tenderness doesn't/ linger like a Paris afternoon or a wart/ something dumb and despicable that I love"

--"For the Chinese New Year and Bill Berkson", Frank O'Hara

[Tennessee English @UTKEnglish]

Congratulations Dr. Wright!