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Kelly Gray

@k-gray.bsky.social
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Author of Instructions for An Animal Body (Moon Tide), Mating Calls //of the// Specter (Tusculum Review Chapbook Prize). Work in Witness, Passages North, Southern Humanities, Permafrost, Pithead Chapel, Heavy Feather, Rust+Moth, etc. writekgray.com

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Kelly Gray @k-gray.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
"Lest all this ​“dream” talk sound soft and squishy and immaterial, it’s imperative to understand this nightmarish moment as actually being a reflection of someone else’s dream." inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
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Trump’s Reign of Terror on Schools—and How We Fight Back
It’s not enough to be afraid of the laws and rules we don’t want to see in schools. We have to clarify our visions of what we are fighting for.
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Kelly Gray @k-gray.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Poems up at Up the Staircase Quarterly.
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Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
A fascinating poem by Jenny George from her book After Image…
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Kelly Gray @k-gray.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Thank you Up The Staircase Quarterly for publishing two of my poems alongside these dreamy poets. Plus the cover art, gorgeous. Transgender Latina, by Ernesto Beckford. www.upthestaircase.org
Stunning collage of figure standing on a staircase, titled Transgender Latina. Bold greens, reds, blues and purples.
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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.
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Kelly Gray @k-gray.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Sonoma County Educators and Parents:
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Sonoma police, school district vow to keep families safe during immigration crackdown
In an attempt to reassure many alarmed local residents as the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown continues, Sonoma Valley law enforcement and school leaders emphasized that they will continu...
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SHOH Arts @shoharts.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Above Mineral Springs #20 Gage Opdenbrouw Oil on canvas 20 x 20 inches #gageopdenbrouw #landscape #originalart #californiaart #contemporarylandscape
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Kelly Gray @k-gray.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Here's an interview I did with the lovely @subhaga.bsky.social on their book Transitory. Thanks to Green Linden Press for giving this conversation about lineage, trans lives, and the power-of-the-poetic a home. www.greenlindenpress.com/interviews-a...
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Interviews & Reviews — Green Linden Press
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Kelly Gray @k-gray.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Rust+Moth does such a stellar job curating issues. This one is dark and moody, like a Tom Waits album. rustandmoth.com/work/my-gran...
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My Grandmother was Once a Girl | Rust & Moth
When you turn her hands over to reveal palms, you will find death almost pretty in tender holding. If you turn them over again, you will find paper skin, veins knotted with caducity. Her face is a wet...
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Kelly Gray @k-gray.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Thank you Voice Mail Poems for publishing my reading of "The Coldening" in the Fall issue! voicemailpoems.org/2024/11/12/t...
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The Coldening
by Kelly Gray VOICEMAIL POEMS · "The Coldening" by Kelly Gray The leaving was such that each applein the orchard glassed over into ghost-form on a single night. Centers rotted, dropped out,only transl...
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Kelly Gray @k-gray.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Psyched that Jet Fuel Review nominated this poem for a Pushcart. www.jetfuelreview.com/kelly-gray-s...
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Kelly Gray Spring 2024
The Coldening The leaving was such that each apple in the orchard glassed over into ghost-form on a single night. Centers rotted, dropped out, only translucent orbs at the end of wooded knots...
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Kelly Gray @k-gray.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Thanks for making space for this work @anmlymag.bsky.social and @sarahclark.bsky.social. 🖤 WOOD THRUSH AS GHOST //AS TEXT//AS DIAGNOSIS//AS JOURNAL//AS ERASURE//AS POEM//AS REDDIT FORUM//AS HAIBUN//AS LIST// anmly.org/ap39/kelly-g...
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Kelly Gray – ANMLY
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