Kathleen P. Decker, M.D.

My poem, "Shelter" won first place in the Poetry Society of Virginia's Annual Contest in the category in honor of Anne Spencer,...

An art quilt and accompanying poem ("United Hemispheres") have been accepted to the international online journal "Consilience," Issue...

I was invited to discuss "Imagination" at the Matthews Public Library's Summer "Adventures in Imagination." I discussed the collaboration...

I hosted a party for contributors to two recent anthologies-Blended Voices and Views of Virginia. Several of the poets and artists whose...

"Meeting of the Minds" was accepted by juror Maggie Vanderweit (SAQA) and shown a number of venues in Northern Virginia and online in...

There will be an in-gallery juried exhibit at the Kavanaugh Fine Line Gallery in St. Charles, Illinois, that will feature one of my...

In 2023, the American Geophysical Union held a virtual and in-person exhibit of stitched fiber art to celebrate the decade of the ocean...

This art quilt, "Valentine's Day Message," is showing at the Charles H. Taylor Art Museum in Hampton, Virginia from 2/3/2024-3/30/2024....

Showing now! "Abstraction," an international online 3D gallery. Link: https://www.gallery-omnibus.com/abstraction-hall-2 "Amoeba," by...

Governor Youngkin has named Margaret O. Daramola as the new Virginia Poet Laureate. Although she is young, possibly the youngest Virginia...

Kathleen P. Decker swaying birches for the most part unbroken white bark greyed by fog peeling, peeled battered by high winds and hail...

TREES IN SNOW Kathleen P. Decker simple phrase trees in snow look closer spiky oak branches dull-brown, covered with thin linear deposits...

Kathleen P. Decker peace achieved piece of memory frozen peas on my wrist after playing my beloved violin peace marital piece of memory...

On the fifth day of Fishmas I saw by the sea… five golden warblers four cormorants calling three minnows schooling two turtles nesting...

"This poem was written as a commentary due to work I did with the Eastern Shore branch of the Medical Reserve Corps of Virginia early in...

The whole poem and others in "Updraft" are available at Amazon.