Beginning at the Bottom Authors Kathryn Stripling Byer North Carolina Poet Laureate DOI: https://doi.org/10.3776/ncl.v66i1.92 Abstract Text of poem read during the opening session of the North Carolina Library Association 57th Biennieal Conference. Downloads PDF Issue Vol. 66 No. 1 (2008) Section Features License Articles published 2023 and later: (C) The Authors, released under CC-BY license Articles published 2022 and earlier: Released under a CC-BY-NC license