Abigail
Kirby
Conklin
Writer, performer, educator
Author of the chapbook Triage (Jan 2020, Duck Lake Books)
Upcoming Events
NY City + State
Featured Performer, Poor Mouth Poetry @ An Beal Bocht
2/12/2020
Featured Performer, Hell Gate Bridge Alliance
2/15/2020
Featured Performer, FEAST @ Under St. Mark's
5/2020
Washington, DC
Featured Performer, Potter's House
2/18/20
Detroit, MI
Featured Performer, The Room Project
3/13/20
NY City + State
Featured Performer, Poor Mouth Poetry @ An Beal Bocht
2/12/2020
Featured Performer, Hell Gate Bridge Alliance
2/15/2020
Featured Performer, FEAST @ Under St. Mark's
5/2020
Washington, DC
Featured Performer, Potter's House
2/18/20
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