Incense Drifting to the Horizon

In Incense Drifting to the Horizon, a collection of new poems, Minnesota writer Kathryn Oakley holds up a perceptive, vivid, and sometimes humorous mirror to the joys and sorrows, beauty and awkwardness of our humanity. The poems are divided among themes of daily living, reflections on stories from the larger world, mixed experiences of love, and a new life centered “up north.”

Kathryn Oakley

Kathryn Oakley earned her BA in English at the University of Minnesota, MA in counseling at San Jose State University, and PhD in higher education leadership at the U. While editor of her high school’s literary magazine and throughout a career in non-profit administration, she wrote reports, proposals, editorials, ads, press releases, resumés, columns, and (hidden in an increasingly thick folder in her middle desk drawer) poetry. She has traveled the state as a lecturer with Minnesota Chautauqua, taught graduate courses in humanities and research methods, chaired the board at Unity Church-Unitarian, and raised two accomplished daughters, who are also the mothers of her three adored grandsons. She lives with her husband in St. Paul.