Kelli Russell Agodon
@kelliagodon.bsky.social
(she/her) Poet. Editor. Paddleboarder. Easygoing Capricorn. Next book: Accidental Devotions (Copper Canyon Press, 2026)! Co-host of "Poems You Need" with Melissa Studdard. Faculty at Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.🏳️🌈Bi/Queer
A gingerbread house but with a wall gently kicked in by a "this came close" rejection.
December 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
A gingerbread house but with a wall gently kicked in by a "this came close" rejection.
A gingerbread house but you ate a gingerbread person and now there’s a whole missing-character arc.
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
A gingerbread house but you ate a gingerbread person and now there’s a whole missing-character arc.
A gingerbread house but the roof won’t stay on because you've revised it twelve times.
December 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A gingerbread house but the roof won’t stay on because you've revised it twelve times.
A gingerbread house but inside it's just you and your imposter syndrome eating gumdrops.
December 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
A gingerbread house but inside it's just you and your imposter syndrome eating gumdrops.
A gingerbread house but every wall keeps collapsing under the weight of your unfinished manuscript.
December 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
A gingerbread house but every wall keeps collapsing under the weight of your unfinished manuscript.
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 47
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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My favorite part of December is writing a poem every day, inspired by @kelliagodon.bsky.social and the Two Sylvias Press Poetry Advent Calendar. They're a stellar way to consider your world, and yourself at the end of your year. Only $25 and supports an exceptional PNW poetry press.
Advent Calendar Prompts
IT'S BACK! The Two Sylvias Press Advent Calendar is filled with surprise prompts to help you write 31 new poems in December! Our online virtual Advent Calendar is easy to use--simply click on...
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November 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
My favorite part of December is writing a poem every day, inspired by @kelliagodon.bsky.social and the Two Sylvias Press Poetry Advent Calendar. They're a stellar way to consider your world, and yourself at the end of your year. Only $25 and supports an exceptional PNW poetry press.
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Poets, start your wild, precious engines.
'Astronomers' is an anagram for 'moon starers.'
October 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Poets, start your wild, precious engines.
A haunted house but an open mic where every poet reads past their time.
October 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
A haunted house but an open mic where every poet reads past their time.
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"A collection of empty chairs is called an author reading."
"A group of people who only remember 'the cover was blue' is called a patron."
Collective Nouns for Librarians
A group of librarians is called a cardigan. A collection of empty chairs is called an author reading. A collection of Eric Carle books covered in s...
buff.ly
October 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"A collection of empty chairs is called an author reading."
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We are on loan to each other.
Tell the one you love that you love them while you can.
Tell the one you love that you love them while you can.
"her memory is a cloud she can't hold..."
Lots of feels with this poem for my mum. Sent with love for anyone with a parent or loved one with Alzheimer's/dementia. It's a journey.
(And thank you @poetsorg.bsky.social and Rick Barot for sharing this one. It means a lot.)
Lots of feels with this poem for my mum. Sent with love for anyone with a parent or loved one with Alzheimer's/dementia. It's a journey.
(And thank you @poetsorg.bsky.social and Rick Barot for sharing this one. It means a lot.)
October 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
We are on loan to each other.
Tell the one you love that you love them while you can.
Tell the one you love that you love them while you can.
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Absolutely love that final phrase.
From @kathyfagan.bsky.social's book, Bad Hobby: bookshop.org/a/862/9781571315458
#poetry #books #writing
From @kathyfagan.bsky.social's book, Bad Hobby: bookshop.org/a/862/9781571315458
#poetry #books #writing
October 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Absolutely love that final phrase.
From @kathyfagan.bsky.social's book, Bad Hobby: bookshop.org/a/862/9781571315458
#poetry #books #writing
From @kathyfagan.bsky.social's book, Bad Hobby: bookshop.org/a/862/9781571315458
#poetry #books #writing
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keep your wonder alive, keep your aliveness alive
October 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
keep your wonder alive, keep your aliveness alive
"her memory is a cloud she can't hold..."
Lots of feels with this poem for my mum. Sent with love for anyone with a parent or loved one with Alzheimer's/dementia. It's a journey.
(And thank you @poetsorg.bsky.social and Rick Barot for sharing this one. It means a lot.)
Lots of feels with this poem for my mum. Sent with love for anyone with a parent or loved one with Alzheimer's/dementia. It's a journey.
(And thank you @poetsorg.bsky.social and Rick Barot for sharing this one. It means a lot.)
October 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
"her memory is a cloud she can't hold..."
Lots of feels with this poem for my mum. Sent with love for anyone with a parent or loved one with Alzheimer's/dementia. It's a journey.
(And thank you @poetsorg.bsky.social and Rick Barot for sharing this one. It means a lot.)
Lots of feels with this poem for my mum. Sent with love for anyone with a parent or loved one with Alzheimer's/dementia. It's a journey.
(And thank you @poetsorg.bsky.social and Rick Barot for sharing this one. It means a lot.)
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Today I'm reading - Magpies Recognize
Themselves in the Mirror
~ By Kelli Russell Agodon 🍂
America breaks my heart some days -
I watched a woman have a breakdown in the mall today/what l could see was all of us/Some days the sky is too bright. And like that, we were her-
Themselves in the Mirror
~ By Kelli Russell Agodon 🍂
America breaks my heart some days -
I watched a woman have a breakdown in the mall today/what l could see was all of us/Some days the sky is too bright. And like that, we were her-
August 31, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Today I'm reading - Magpies Recognize
Themselves in the Mirror
~ By Kelli Russell Agodon 🍂
America breaks my heart some days -
I watched a woman have a breakdown in the mall today/what l could see was all of us/Some days the sky is too bright. And like that, we were her-
Themselves in the Mirror
~ By Kelli Russell Agodon 🍂
America breaks my heart some days -
I watched a woman have a breakdown in the mall today/what l could see was all of us/Some days the sky is too bright. And like that, we were her-
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For your Monday
Everyone Is Acting as if We're Not Temporary, and I Am Falling Apart in the Privacy of My Own Home
~ Kelli Russell Agodon
I am a body longing for someone to text me, "Hey, babe, I'm kind of into you." I miss you even though I don't visit. /and we butt dial the wrong person.
Everyone Is Acting as if We're Not Temporary, and I Am Falling Apart in the Privacy of My Own Home
~ Kelli Russell Agodon
I am a body longing for someone to text me, "Hey, babe, I'm kind of into you." I miss you even though I don't visit. /and we butt dial the wrong person.
October 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
For your Monday
Everyone Is Acting as if We're Not Temporary, and I Am Falling Apart in the Privacy of My Own Home
~ Kelli Russell Agodon
I am a body longing for someone to text me, "Hey, babe, I'm kind of into you." I miss you even though I don't visit. /and we butt dial the wrong person.
Everyone Is Acting as if We're Not Temporary, and I Am Falling Apart in the Privacy of My Own Home
~ Kelli Russell Agodon
I am a body longing for someone to text me, "Hey, babe, I'm kind of into you." I miss you even though I don't visit. /and we butt dial the wrong person.
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"You know / I always need to save something, to control it."
'Aubade as Fuel' from LOVE PRODIGAL by Traci Brimhall (Copper Canyon Press) @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
Sheer brilliance 🤍
#poetry #poetrybooks #poetrycollections
'Aubade as Fuel' from LOVE PRODIGAL by Traci Brimhall (Copper Canyon Press) @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
Sheer brilliance 🤍
#poetry #poetrybooks #poetrycollections
August 1, 2025 at 9:24 AM
"You know / I always need to save something, to control it."
'Aubade as Fuel' from LOVE PRODIGAL by Traci Brimhall (Copper Canyon Press) @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
Sheer brilliance 🤍
#poetry #poetrybooks #poetrycollections
'Aubade as Fuel' from LOVE PRODIGAL by Traci Brimhall (Copper Canyon Press) @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
Sheer brilliance 🤍
#poetry #poetrybooks #poetrycollections
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Launch night and I’m never shutting up about this look.
September 17, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Launch night and I’m never shutting up about this look.
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Arthur Sze has been named the new U.S. poet laureate. He succeeds Ada Limón, who has held the position since 2022. During his term as poet laureate, Sze plans to have a special focus on translating poetry originally written in other languages. Read more: at.pw.org/ArthurSze
September 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Arthur Sze has been named the new U.S. poet laureate. He succeeds Ada Limón, who has held the position since 2022. During his term as poet laureate, Sze plans to have a special focus on translating poetry originally written in other languages. Read more: at.pw.org/ArthurSze
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"kindness in poetry is an act of rebellion" -- I stumbled about these words I said to @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social in an interview pre-election. It's funny your own word speak to you...
November 30, 2024 at 2:46 PM
"kindness in poetry is an act of rebellion" -- I stumbled about these words I said to @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social in an interview pre-election. It's funny your own word speak to you...
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My gawd I love this poem:
"When you place a wet kiss on my nape while washing my back in the shower, I think of all good things and forget I am wounded. "
~ T. De Los Reyes @andhow.bsky.social
waxwingmag.org/items/issue3...
"When you place a wet kiss on my nape while washing my back in the shower, I think of all good things and forget I am wounded. "
~ T. De Los Reyes @andhow.bsky.social
waxwingmag.org/items/issue3...
September 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
My gawd I love this poem:
"When you place a wet kiss on my nape while washing my back in the shower, I think of all good things and forget I am wounded. "
~ T. De Los Reyes @andhow.bsky.social
waxwingmag.org/items/issue3...
"When you place a wet kiss on my nape while washing my back in the shower, I think of all good things and forget I am wounded. "
~ T. De Los Reyes @andhow.bsky.social
waxwingmag.org/items/issue3...
This happened to me last night in bed--I had 2 lines to a new poem. . .and I didn't write them down. (And they are now "dust") :-/
#LivingPoetsSociety #ShareLivingPoets
#LivingPoetsSociety #ShareLivingPoets
September 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This happened to me last night in bed--I had 2 lines to a new poem. . .and I didn't write them down. (And they are now "dust") :-/
#LivingPoetsSociety #ShareLivingPoets
#LivingPoetsSociety #ShareLivingPoets
"Sometimes you don't want to love the person you love. . ."
Dang, sometimes I catch myself doing this too--protecting myself from the tenderness I actually crave.
~ Grace Paley's "Anti-Love Poem"
Dang, sometimes I catch myself doing this too--protecting myself from the tenderness I actually crave.
~ Grace Paley's "Anti-Love Poem"
September 7, 2025 at 3:55 AM
"Sometimes you don't want to love the person you love. . ."
Dang, sometimes I catch myself doing this too--protecting myself from the tenderness I actually crave.
~ Grace Paley's "Anti-Love Poem"
Dang, sometimes I catch myself doing this too--protecting myself from the tenderness I actually crave.
~ Grace Paley's "Anti-Love Poem"
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Thanks for posting this beauty from @kelliagodon.bsky.social , Ali
Today I'm reading - Magpies Recognize
Themselves in the Mirror
~ By Kelli Russell Agodon 🍂
America breaks my heart some days -
I watched a woman have a breakdown in the mall today/what l could see was all of us/Some days the sky is too bright. And like that, we were her-
Themselves in the Mirror
~ By Kelli Russell Agodon 🍂
America breaks my heart some days -
I watched a woman have a breakdown in the mall today/what l could see was all of us/Some days the sky is too bright. And like that, we were her-
August 31, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Thanks for posting this beauty from @kelliagodon.bsky.social , Ali