Abigail
Kirby
Conklin
Writer, performer, educator
Author of the chapbook Triage (Jan 2020, Duck Lake Books)
Click here to listen as Conklin discusses Triage, public education, and being an adult poet on the Dead Rabbits podcast!
Upcoming Events
NY City + State
Featured Performer, Same Page Reading Series @ KGB
4/8/20
Featured Performer, FEAST @ Under St. Mark's
5/4/2020
Detroit, MI
Featured Performer, The Room Project
3/13/20
NY City + State
Featured Performer, Same Page Reading Series @ KGB
4/8/20
Featured Performer, FEAST @ Under St. Mark's
5/4/2020
Detroit, MI
Featured Performer, The Room Project
3/13/20
"Conklin's poems are full of energy, and an aim, an intention. As if the words are clawing at the page, trying to leap out of it and into your heart."
— S. Starkweather
"There are instances of great care and admiration for others in her words, and when she says, "I write because I want my work to be useful to other people," I believe her... I discovered an inherent humility in her process, and within that humility Abigail plays both an outgoing, exuberant and charismatic optimist as well as an insightful, curious, internalizing artist."
- A. Moens
"... texture, patterns, sensations, and the palpable. It is a feeling of pure sensory detail, washed with imagery and world-building. As a woman, it is also a hyper-real experience-- every breath, every whisper, every touch in Abigail's work feels visceral, like it could literally travel down the length of my back. It's both seductive and exhilarating."
- M. Manda
"She adjusts the mike and scans the room. Then, she takes it over. She chomps through her work. Her words have bite and her delivery…this is not a reading, this is a performance. Remember her name."
- M. Kleinman
— S. Starkweather
"There are instances of great care and admiration for others in her words, and when she says, "I write because I want my work to be useful to other people," I believe her... I discovered an inherent humility in her process, and within that humility Abigail plays both an outgoing, exuberant and charismatic optimist as well as an insightful, curious, internalizing artist."
- A. Moens
"... texture, patterns, sensations, and the palpable. It is a feeling of pure sensory detail, washed with imagery and world-building. As a woman, it is also a hyper-real experience-- every breath, every whisper, every touch in Abigail's work feels visceral, like it could literally travel down the length of my back. It's both seductive and exhilarating."
- M. Manda
"She adjusts the mike and scans the room. Then, she takes it over. She chomps through her work. Her words have bite and her delivery…this is not a reading, this is a performance. Remember her name."
- M. Kleinman