Praise for Whatever Shines, prose poems by
Kathleen McGookey:

Whatever Shines is an admirable and dazzling first collection.  The voice is indisputably unique and haunting, and one looks forward to anything the poet writes in the future.

--Jim Harrison

The light that emanates from Whatever Shines is the uncommon light of imagination.  Whether writing in verse or in artfully compressed prose poems, Kathleen McGookey exhibits a gift for fresh invention.  More impressive yet, (especially for a first book,) is that invention for this young poet is never an end in itself, but a means by which her carefully modulated language is surprised into sudden, revelatory emotion. 

--Stuart Dybek

The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read.  Celebrate it!