Kathy's Songs

A pithy volume of lyrical verse from seasoned poet Mark R. Conte, Kathy's Songs is a book you will want to carry with you to dip into again and again. The Yellow dreams that fall Like leaves too ripe to cling Gather in little piles About our roots And burn with the wind. Mark Randolph Conte has published fiction, poetry, articles, interviews and Guest Columns in 67 publications including Yankee, Crazy Horse, Potomac Review, Washington Post, Miami Herald, Philadelphia Daily News, Tallahassee Democrat, New York Arts Journal, Northwest Florida Daily News, Southern Poetry Review, Poetry International, Poet, Devil's Millhopper, Apalachee Quarterly, Snake Nation, Poem, and others. He was Director of the Florida State University Poet Series, and was appointed Master Poet for the Poet in the Schools program by the Florida Arts Council and Assistant Director of the Center for Participant Education. He is a member of the Authors' Guild & Academy of American Poets. He won honorable mention in the PEN American awards in short fiction in 1979, first prize in poetry in the Barbwire Theater awards and the Packard Poetry Award.