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...inthesetimes.comTrump’s Reign of Terror on Schools—and How We Fight BackIt’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. 010
Kelly Gray @k-gray.bsky.social · 02/02/2025"I woke up, looked in the mirror & there I wasn’t: tiny tits on a too-huge ribcage." SO GOOD. 110
Reposted by Kelly GrayCarl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · 02/02/2025A fascinating poem by Jenny George from her book After Image… 624036
Kelly Gray @k-gray.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Thank you @aprilmbratten.bsky.social for all your time on this! 🖤 010
Kelly Gray @k-gray.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Thank 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 3113
Reposted by Kelly GrayJoy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.media.tenor.coma drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around itALT: a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it 10195814813206
Kelly Gray @k-gray.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Sonoma County Educators and Parents:sonomanews.comSonoma police, school district vow to keep families safe during immigration crackdownIn 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... 041
Reposted by Kelly GraySHOH Arts @shoharts.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Above Mineral Springs #20 Gage Opdenbrouw Oil on canvas 20 x 20 inches #gageopdenbrouw #landscape #originalart #californiaart #contemporarylandscape 0231
Kelly Gray @k-gray.bsky.social · 23/01/2025I still wish we had recorded our initial zoom meeting, but alas, somethings are just for the memory bank. 💓 010
Kelly Gray @k-gray.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Here'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...greenlindenpress.comInterviews & Reviews — Green Linden Press 160
Kelly Gray @k-gray.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Rust+Moth does such a stellar job curating issues. This one is dark and moody, like a Tom Waits album. rustandmoth.com/work/my-gran...rustandmoth.comMy Grandmother was Once a Girl | Rust & MothWhen 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... 080
Kelly Gray @k-gray.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Thank you Voice Mail Poems for publishing my reading of "The Coldening" in the Fall issue! voicemailpoems.org/2024/11/12/t...voicemailpoems.orgThe Coldeningby 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... 172
Kelly Gray @k-gray.bsky.social · 09/11/2024Psyched that Jet Fuel Review nominated this poem for a Pushcart. www.jetfuelreview.com/kelly-gray-s...jetfuelreview.comKelly Gray Spring 2024The 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... 020
Kelly Gray @k-gray.bsky.social · 09/11/2024Thanks 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...anmly.orgKelly Gray – ANMLY 063