{"id":9883,"date":"2026-04-09T21:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=9883"},"modified":"2026-04-09T21:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:07:16","slug":"kate-gaskin-returns-to-campus-to-celebrate-the-release-of-her-newest-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2026\/04\/09\/kate-gaskin-returns-to-campus-to-celebrate-the-release-of-her-newest-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Gaskin returns to campus to celebrate the release of her newest book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 Last Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/troysigmataudelta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sigma Tau Delta<\/a>, Troy&#8217;s English Honor Society, invited <a href=\"http:\/\/katebgaskin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kate Gaskin<\/a>, a 2004 Troy alumna and author, to present her newest book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;When we found out that Kate was publishing her second volume, it seemed like a wonderful opportunity to bring bring in a troy alum,&#8221; said Anais Shelley, the President of Sigma Tau Delta. &#8220;As you can imagine it is a really inspirational thing for a department of readers and writers to see someone achieving the dream.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gaskin&#8217;s latest volume of poetry, titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/lsupress.org\/9780807186145\/a-red-knock-knocking-like-a-heart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Red Knock-Knocking Like a Heart<\/a>,&#8221; was published this past February by LSU Press. In the volume, Gaskin discusses deep, and sometimes taboo, topics such as being a military wife, women&#8217;s medical issues, motherhood, and raising neurodivergent children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2026\/04\/02\/visiting-professor-describes-opportunities-provided-by-fulbright-scholar-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CAMPUS COVERAGE: Visiting professor describes opportunities provided by Fulbright Scholar Program<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It is very easy to resort to silence because I think our society is not open to listening to women, and listening to women&#8217;s experiences when they diverge from what is normal,&#8221; Gaskin said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a hard thing to do, to talk about these things, but it&#8217;s also one of the easiest things I&#8217;ve ever done.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Audience members were free to express their own raw emotion. For Sigma Tau Delta this kind of reaction helps build a sense of community and understanding through the artform of writing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 Last Thursday, Sigma Tau Delta, Troy&#8217;s English Honor Society, invited Kate Gaskin, a 2004 Troy alumna and author, to present her newest book.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we found out that Kate was publishing her second volume, it seemed like a wonderful opportunity to bring bring in a troy alum,&#8221; said Anais Shelley, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2026\/04\/09\/kate-gaskin-returns-to-campus-to-celebrate-the-release-of-her-newest-book\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":9903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[3015,3016,3017],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-9883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-kate-gaskin","tag-troy-sigma-tau-delta","tag-troy-university-english-honor-society","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9902,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883\/revisions\/9902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9883"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=9883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}