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Donika Kelly
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Author of Bestiary and The Renunciations and The Natural Order of Things | Graywolf Press | Kate Tufts | Hurston/Wright | Anisfield-Wolf |NEA | Iowa English | she/her/dr.
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Donika Kelly @donikakelly.bsky.social · Mar 14
My new book THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS comes out October 7 and is available for pre-order! If you order from @prairielights.com I'll sign your copy! www.prairielightsbooks.com/book/9781644...
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The cover of donika kelly's poetry collection The Natural Order of Things. Open and translucent cicada wings on the left side of a white background with the title and author name toward the right.
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YOU KNOW WTF TIME IT IS!!!!♐️♐️♐️♐️♐️♐️
a woman in a red dress is holding a microphone with her arms outstretched and screaming .
Alt: a woman in a red dress is holding a microphone with her arms outstretched and screaming “SAGITTARIUS SEASON.”
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November 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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torchliteraryarts.bsky.social
Tonight! Don't miss this reading by Tiana Clark and Donika Kelly at 7PM at Black Pearl Books!

Free RSVP: secure.qgiv.com/for/torlitart/event/tianaclarkanddonikakelly/
November 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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prairielights.com
Join us tonight at 7 pm for a double feature reading by @melissafebos.bsky.social and @donikakelly.bsky.social!
November 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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A poem I wrote some months ago showed up at my door today in the first issue of the relaunched Southerly magazine.
OMAR SAKR Walking to day-care in the genocide The primary selling point of a pram Has never been articulated by an ad. My son yells out his discoveries - Tree, rock, motorbike, cloud, a bee! I walk behind him unseen, grief-struck And let the tears come without fear That my weeping will drive him To worry. O holy carriage, hold fast His wonder, and my wet confession Of this, a father's sole reprieve.
November 4, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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My third book, This Elegance, is out from @boa-editions.bsky.social in May 2026.

Cover design by Sandy Knight with art by Diedrick Brackens.

Available to preorder now 🙏🏿
The book cover for Derrick Austin's third book of poetry, This Elegance. A detail from a weaving by Diedrick Brackens. A kneeling silhouette poses against a yellow moon. The silhouette holds a long red candle in one hand and balances one small red candle on his head and two small candles on his other arm and one yellow candle on the heel of his foot.
October 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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🌈📚

📖 The Natural Order of Things: Poems

by Donika Kelly
@donikakelly.bsky.social

an extraordinary and unexpected book of finding happiness

Affiliate Link
bookshop.org/a/100590/978...

#booksky #queerbooks #poetry
The Natural Order of Things: Poems
Poems
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November 4, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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bradlisti.bsky.social
Tomorrow on the show, I'll be talking w poet Donika Kelly about her new collection, THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS, an evocative cycle of poems that have much to do w happiness and love and embodiment, & what it's like to experience these sorts of things on the other side of a darkness.

Stay tuned...
November 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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they just did this to millennials saying the reason we couldn't afford homes is because of coffee.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 27d
“At the same time, more than half of Gen Z members say they are struggling to make ends meet, yet a majority buy themselves a small treat, such as a pastry, coffee, or sweet, at least once a week. That can lead to overspending…”

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Why are young people spending so much money?
October 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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torchliteraryarts.bsky.social
Join us for An Evening with Tiana Clark and Donika Kelly at Black Pearl Books!

Thursday, Nov. 6th
7:00 P.M.
Black Pearl Books
7112 Burnet Rd, Austin, TX 78757

RSVP: secure.qgiv.com/for/torlitart/event/tianaclarkanddonikakelly/
October 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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#ClipOfTheDay: “I was little and lost / the season I learned to be still...” In this Charis Circle event, Donika Kelly reads poems from her new collection, The Natural Order of Things (Graywolf Press), and speaks with Jericho Brown about family, home, and her writing process. at.pw.org/KellyCharis
October 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Sharing for awareness: For those able and willing to help, the Embassy of Jamaica in DC is coordinating disaster relief in the U.S.

They have asked folks to reach out to them at disasterresponse@jamaicaembassy.org to coordinate support.

The government has info on donations supportjamaica.gov.jm
Support Jamaica
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October 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Awaiting a pre-reading burrito. See you at Skylight Books at 7!
I'm sitting in the sun, sunnies on, smugly awaiting a burrito.
October 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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This was such a fantastic event! If you're in Boston, please check out Just Book-ish, a lovely Black queer bookstore!
donikakelly.bsky.social Donika Kelly @donikakelly.bsky.social · Oct 18
I'll be in Dorchester, Mass this Tuesday at Just Book-ish at 6:30-8pm. RSVP at www.justbook-ish.com.
October 22, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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torchliteraryarts.bsky.social
Save the Date!

November 6 at 7pm
Black Pearl Books

Join us for a special evening at Black Pearl Books featuring Tiana Clark, author of Scortch Earth, and Donika Kelly, author of The Natural Order of Things!

RSVP: secure.qgiv.com/for/torlitar...
October 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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I'll be in Dorchester, Mass this Tuesday at Just Book-ish at 6:30-8pm. RSVP at www.justbook-ish.com.
October 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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#ClipOfTheDay: “So much has happened / that I would never have known / I could remember.” In this Silo City Reading Series video, Donika Kelly reads her poem “Suicide Watch: Spring,” which appears in her third poetry collection, The Natural Order of Things (Graywolf Press). at.pw.org/SiloCityKelly
October 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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In her latest poetry collection, The Natural Order of Things, out now from @graywolfpress.bsky.social, Donika Kelly (@donikakelly.bsky.social) celebrates joy as a simple yet radical means of resisting despair. “I have a high capacity for sensitivity to the sublime.” Read more: at.pw.org/DonikaKelly
October 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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pw.org
Announcing our Nov/Dec issue! 🎉 Inside you’ll find a profile of poet Donika Kelly, author of The Natural Order of Things; our tenth annual 5 Over 50 debut author feature; a craft essay in appreciation of the longer short story; and the case for collective resistance to AI. More: at.pw.org/NovDec2025
October 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Tonight!
October 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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The book tour continues! Tomorrow night at 7:30 eastern, I'll be in conversation with Jericho Brown at Charis Books. Register for the livestream here: www.crowdcast.io/c/the-natura...
The Natural Order of Things: Donika Kelly in Conversation with Jericho Brown
Register now for The Natural Order of Things: Donika Kelly in Conversation with Jericho Brown on crowdcast, scheduled to go live on October 14, 2025, 07:30 PM EDT.
www.crowdcast.io
October 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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hanvanderhart.bsky.social
The moon drops one or two feathers into the
field.
The dark wheat listens.
Be still.
Now.

James Wright
POETRY FOUNDATION Beginning BY JAMES WRIGHT The moon drops one or two feathers into the field. The dark wheat listens. Be still. Now. There they are, the moon's young, trying Their wings. Between trees, a slender woman lifts up the lovely shadow Of her face, and now she steps into the air, now she is gone Wholly, into the air. I stand alone by an elder tree, I do not dare breathe Or move. I listen. The wheat leans back toward its own darkness, And I lean toward mine.
October 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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From BOMB’s Fall 2025 Issue, @donikakelly.bsky.social’s poems from THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS (graywolfpress.bsky.social) evoke a visceral sense of the intimate. Read an excerpt.

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October 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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prairielights.com
Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading at the Iowa City Public Library with Donika Kelly!
October 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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torchliteraryarts.bsky.social
Congratulations to Torch Features Patricia Smith and Tiana Clark, and all of the finalists longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry!

See Tiana Clark and Donika Kelly at the Torch events at the Texas Book Festival in November!

Details at TorchLiteraryArts.org
October 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM