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Tina Kelley

@tinakelley.bsky.social
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journalist poet mother wife knitter Episcopalian Jersey girl and Buy Nothing enthusiast. Not quite in that order.

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Tina Kelley @tinakelley.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
grateful that @tweetspeak has featured my new book from @jacarpress in a kind review www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/2026/07/14/p...
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Poets and Poems: Tina Kelley and “Field Guide to North American Words” - Tweetspeak Poetry
In "Field Guide to North American Words," poet Tina Kelley uses unusual and obscure words to report on life, meaning, and understanding.
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Tina Kelley @tinakelley.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I’m excited to be joining the new P-TECH Alliance, to spread the Pathways in Technology Early College High School model to more states and students. In offering a free associate degree and supported pathway from high school to college and career, P-TECH helps students find family-sustaining jobs.
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Tina Kelley @tinakelley.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Honored to in New America fellowship compilation! Can't wait to dig in to stories of reckoning, pride, and aspiration to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the US. I got to spend time with and learn from some impressive folks! Take a look! www.newamerica.org/insights/mil...
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Miles to Go: Stories of Us at 250
Essays by New America’s Us@250 fellows on how communities across the country face pride, reckoning, and aspiration at the 250th anniversary.
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Tina Kelley @tinakelley.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Excited for the P-TECH model to be reaching future teachers, with free college! Commentary: This new path into teaching could be a way out of the teacher shortage www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...
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Commentary: This new path into teaching could be a way out of the teacher shortage
The P-TEACH initiative lowers costs and opens doors for high school students who are interested in careers in education.
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Tina Kelley @tinakelley.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Grateful to celebrate publication day for Field Guide to North American Words, my first thematic poetry book. Thank you, Jacar Press and Richard Krawiec and Natalie Eleanor Patterson and all the magazines that helped these see the light of day. I like big words and I cannot lie.
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Field Guide to North American Words - Jacar Press
Tina Kelley With wonder, wit, and playfulness, the poems in Field Guide to North American Words explore the joy found…
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Tina Kelley @tinakelley.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
My big project from last year is out on VillageGreen, after a shorter version appeared in @theprogressive. Thank you to editors, to @NewAmerica for its US@250 Fellowship! villagegreennj.com/community/mo...
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Tina Kelley @tinakelley.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Excited to be working on launching this nonprofit to spread the P-TECH model! companyglance.com/news/the-new...
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The New P-TECH Alliance Brings Free College to More Students
The P-TECH Alliance brings free college degrees and career training to more high school students. Learn how this amazing school model changes lives…
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Tina Kelley @tinakelley.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I'm over the moon to announce my next poetry book, my first thematic one, from Jacar Press, Field Guide to North American Words, due out shortly. I like big words, and I can not lie. Pre-orders open! jacarpress.com/field-guide-...
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Field Guide to North American Words - Jacar Press
Tina Kelley With wonder, wit, and playfulness, the poems in Field Guide to North American Words explore the joy found…
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Tina Kelley @tinakelley.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
It was a thrill to see the results P-TECH New Brunswick has logged in a few short years! 100% graduation rate, and so many associate degrees earned by high school students! www.tapinto.net/towns/new-br...
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Lt. Gov. Caldwell Praises City Schools Program that Prepares Students for Career
New Brunswick, Jim Cahill, Dale Caldwell, P-TECH
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Tina Kelley @tinakelley.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Very excited to celebrate Pathways in Technology Early College High School tonight in NYC with special guests and an announcement that makes me super happy! www.einpresswire.com/article/9021...
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P-TECH Alliance Launches at 15th Anniversary of Historic Brooklyn School
Students at the 6-year public high school can receive no-cost associate degrees and connections to partner industries in a model the Alliance will boost widely.
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Tina Kelley @tinakelley.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I'm grateful to the editors of @swwim.bsky.social for publishing my yelp review of the human race! www.swwim.org/swwimeveryda...
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SWWIM Every Day — SWWIM
by Tina Kelley The website said there were exploded bits of the holy in everybody, so I put them on my bucket list. The lobby was welcoming, concierge and maître d’ were all I could ask for. L...
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Tina Kelley @tinakelley.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Grateful to @stonecirclereview.bsky.social and editor @leepottspoet.bsky.social for taking "Self Portrait as Funeral Star," stonecirclereview.com-self-portrait starring the GWB, among other things.
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Stone Circle Review - An journal sharing poems that re-enchant the ordinary
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Tina Kelley @tinakelley.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Excited to share the fruits of my New America fellowship, grateful to The Progressive Magazine editors and to everyone who shared their thoughts with me! progressive.org/magazine/mor...
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More Than Neighbors
How a decades-long effort to promote interracial friendship is playing out in one New York City suburb.
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Tina Kelley @tinakelley.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The transformative high school model I co-wrote a book about is rising to the top of the pack in NYC! www.shankerinstitute.org/blog/ptech-1
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PTECH is #1
PTECH should be part of the solution to the affordability crisis.
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Tina Kelley @tinakelley.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I'll be reading poems at Otto's Shrunken Head, at the Carmine Street Metrics poetry reading, Sunday, Jan 11, 3-5:30 pm. Doors and open mic sign-up: 3:00 pm. Special Features: Tina Kelley and Francine Witte 538 E 14th Street (west of Avenue B) Free and Handicap accessible. Photo coz cats/internet
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Tina Kelley @tinakelley.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
So excited to be on @revkin.bsky.social's show today at 1 p.m., come join us to talk about #socialmediathatdoesntsuck revkin.substack.com/p/a-call-to-...
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A Call to Harness Doomscrolling for Good - Really
A journalist and a lawyer put out a call for a social media platform that helps people and the planet instead of mega-tycoons
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Tina Kelley @tinakelley.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Why are we giving away our eyeballs for free? excited to be back in the pages of my alma mater, with my friend Eric Jepeal! www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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Social media that could cure cancer and feed the hungry | Opinion
Catastrophic losses to research and charity can be turned into wins if we rewrite the social contract of social media.
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Tina Kelley @tinakelley.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This just in at Montclair Local: montclairlocal.news/2025/12/as-s...
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As Shop Classes Vanish, This Essex County Business is Reviving Woodworking
Students who follow the three-year curriculum can earn 16 college credits and eligibility for a $22-an-hour apprenticeships, leading to higher paying work in a growth industry.
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Tina Kelley @tinakelley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
@martha silano would've been thrilled about this: www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...
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1388: When I learn Catastrophically by Martha Silano
Today’s poem is When I learn Catastrophically by Martha Silano.
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Tina Kelley @tinakelley.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
He really looks like the man in the moon.
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Tina Kelley @tinakelley.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I am cutting a giant article in half today so send chocolate and yarn. The comfort of the cat is not enough.
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Tina Kelley @tinakelley.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
This just in from @montclairlocalnews.bsky.social montclairlocal.news/2025/10/mont...
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Montclair Schools See Decrease in Suspensions, Still 'Work to Do'
Still, Black students, who are 19% of the student body, are disproportionately represented in discipline cases, accounting for 66% of suspensions. And the number of suspensions for Hispanic students r...
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Erin Jean Warde @erinjeanwarde.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Happy first female Archbishop of Canterbury to all who observe 🙏🏻
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Tina Kelley @tinakelley.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Got here. Way late. Happy to see some poets I've been missing!
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