Highly Textured Writer: Kyle Dargan

high•ly tex•tured writ•er:A person whose work is to write books, poems, or stories and has curly or kinky hair.

Welcome Kyle Dargan to Librarian Dreams.

1. What is your signature hairstyle and how do you achieve it?

Well, and this relates to my writing a bit, I tend to only cut my hair when a close family member passes away. (It is a folk tradition.) So unless I am in the period of mourning, my hair is usually long—a bushy, curly afro. I used to push it back with a bandana or band, but now I am going to just let it go. I have a poem in the The Listening, “Old Ways,” about that process of shearing.

2. Which books could give insight on you as a person? Why?All of them, but only for particular moments in time. I think that since I am trying to…