Kathy Figueroa
Kathy Figueroa is a Canadian poet who resides in the northern part of Hastings County, Ontario, Canada. She was born and spent much of her childhood in the Kootenay region of British Columbia. She lives and writes in Bancroft, Ontario, officially known as the Mineral Capital of Canada. The surrounding forested region has often inspired her various creative endeavours, which include photography. Writing in a people’s poetry style Kathy submits her work to the local newspapers and, as of early 2015, her poems have appeared in over eighty-five issues.[1][2]
Kathy has long been involved with different events featuring poetry and often, music. These include a monthly open mic event, which she both organized and participated in for many years, and a writers’ group for poetry, short story, and theatrical play enthusiasts that has been meeting monthly at the Bancroft Public Library, since late 2012. In 2014, Kathy created and staged "The World Is Wild Literary Festival," a two day event held in Maynooth, Ontario.
She has participated in poetry gatherings in small towns as well as larger urban centres, in Ontario and British Columbia. These locations include New Westminster, Peterborough, Ontario, Roblin Lake (near Ameliasburgh), Toronto, and Vancouver. Kathy has published nine small chapbooks of poetry, as well as one containing her locally staged short play, Conflicted About The Wolf.
Kathy Figueroa’s play, "Conflicted About The Wolf," was staged on Saturday, May 14, 2011, at the Village Playhouse Theatre in Bancroft, Ontario as part of the "24 Hour Theatre Event," and mentioned afterwards in articles in The Bancroft Times newspaper on May 19, 2011 and in the Bancroft This Week newspaper, on May 20, 2011. Several regional magazines, and twenty + different poetry anthologies, have included her poems. She was also the North American editor of the Intercontinental Anthology on Universal Peace that was published in India. Kathy compiled and edited A Realm of Rhyme of the Rural Kind, an anthology of Bancroft area prose and poetry.
Publications
- 2012: Paudash Poems 106 p. Brian Wrixon Books Canada[3] ISBN 978-0-9880958-6-1
- 2014: The Cathedral of the Eternal Blue Sky 168 p. Brian Wrixon Books Canada [4] ISBN 978-1-927682-82-1
- 2014: Flowertopia 88 p. Brian Wrixon Books Canada[5] ISBN 978-1-927682-73-9
Poetry anthology contributions
- 2012: A Poet's View Of Being Anthology published by Brian Wrixon Books ISBN 978-0-9916717-8-6
- 2012: That Not Forgotten edited by Bruce Kauffman North Shore/Hidden Brook Press ISBN 978-1-8974758-9-8
- 2012: Between Earth & Sky Anthology Silver Bow Publishing ISBN 978-0-9916851-1-0
- 2013: Winter Poetry published by Brian Wrixon Books ISBN 978-1-927682-75-3
- 2013: Rhyme With Reason Brian Wrixon Books ISBN 978-1-927682-64-7
- 2013: Heavens Above - Poetry Below published by Brian Wrixon Books ISBN 978-1-927682-56-2
- 2013: A Haiku Treasury Brian Wrixon Books ISBN 978-1-927682-30-2
- 2014: Food For Thought Beret Days Press The Ontario Poetry Society ISBN 978-1-926495-05-7
- 2014: Autumn Poetry Brian Wrixon Books ISBN 978-1-927682-99-9
- 2014: Intercontinental Anthology Of Poetry On Universal Peace Global Fraternity of Poets, Yayati Madan G. Ghandi/editor-in-chief & Mutiu Olawuyi/managing editor ISBN 978-93-83755-06-6
- 2014: Mandela Tributes edited by Mutiu Olawuyi & Madan Gandhi, Global Fraternity of Poets Publishing, India ISBN 978-93-83888-06-1