INWIT By Lolette Kuby

Summary:

This book is a combination of love, accomplishments and regrets. Lolette says, "In poems love is purified; it’s there for its own sake, to celebrate that which is loved."

Some people ask themselves how they should feel, or look to others to help them understand their feelings.  Lolette Kuby searches within herself to explain and then release her feelings. Through her book, Inwit, Lolette helps the reader understand experience every feeling she has through the illustration of her words. Some of her poems include, “It Comes to This,” “War Story,” “A Woman’s Will.”

About the Author:

Lolette Kuby was a life-long Clevelander until she decided to move to Canada 5 years ago. At the age of 6 (the year she learned to write), she wrote her first poem. Though the muse visited sporadically for many years, she didn't demand permanent entrance until Lolette was in grad school working on a doctorate in English at Case Western Reserve University. After receiving her Ph.D., Lolette taught at Cleveland State University for 14 years.

Lolette's poems have appeared in scores of well-known literary journals and in a chapbook. Her first full-length collection was published in 2002. Poetry is her first, but not her only love. She writes in many genres--articles (her subject matter is largely women's rights and the environment), short fiction (book of linked short stories), literary criticism (book on the British poet , Philip Larkin), non-fiction (book on spiritual, alternative, and self-healing). In Cleveland she was actively involved in The Poets and Writers League of Greater Cleveland, which conducted such events and programs as "Poetry-in-transit" (poems on buses), "Cities Exchange Poets," (poetry readings in which poets from different cities competed, a la ancient Greece), and poets inner city baseball teams. She co-created "Poetry: Mirror of the Arts," a new type of program which presents poems about the other arts--music, painting, dance, etc., in the institutions that house these arts. These programs have been presented in such famous institutions as the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Orchestra. Her move to Canada took her out of the university classroom and into full-time freelance editing of poetry and fiction.