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Candice M. Kelsey
@feed-me-poetry.bsky.social
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Grateful educator, fledgling poet, bumbling mother, proud cat lady, and language-obsessed woman running coast to coast with hair on fire.
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Hey Waltz and JD, add me to the group chat too! 🤦🏻‍♀️
March 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Excited for #AWP25 — the sessions, readings, signings, and just all around attention to the only world I love, the worldof words. @rfpress.bsky.social @finishinglinepress.bsky.social @troublemakerfire.bsky.social
March 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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I wrote this two years ago trying to process the horror; today I cannot process America. 🇺🇦
Blackout poem for the mass graves in Bucha, Ukraine
February 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Anyone else find Trump eerily similar to Qin Shi Huang?
8,000 terra cotta soldiers lined up inside tomb from ancient Qin Chinese Dynasty
February 7, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Just a lil Jan. 6 poem of mine for today—from issue 1 @thecovemag.bsky.social
Four stanza poem titled “American Tragedy”
February 7, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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I know what I saw. And you know what you saw. Join me in the NO GASLIGHT ZONE!
Picture of Elon Musk in full Seig Heil Nazi salute and my rant over how disgusting it is.
January 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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@genestone.bsky.social will you be publishing a revised and updated edition?
Smiling woman in glasses holding white book titled TRUMP SURVIVAL GUIDE
January 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Happy to share my recent ode to weekend nights in L.A. @gyroscopereview.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Gyroscope-Re...
Poem titled “L.A. Nocturne” starting “The week ended today / the week that would never end…”
January 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Proud of my juniors’ final ENVELOPE POEMS projects—channeling Emily Dickinson, writing gorgeous nothings on found scraps, and binding fascicle-style chapbooks! #belleofamherst
Various creatively bound chapbooks
January 3, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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#JimmyCarter did so much for nature conservation. I offer up a poem in his honor. 🐦
Poem titled “Meditation on Selective Memory Begins with Jimmy Carter”
December 30, 2024 at 1:12 PM
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Horrifying. Also, in an effort at upholding dignity for the unhoused—
Poem titled “We, the Unhoused” imagines the unexpected joys of music “pouring from open windows onto / hours that cannot hold…”
December 27, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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Thank you for sharing again @identitytheory.bsky.social www.identitytheory.com/woman-ruins-...
Four white Christmas candles with bright flames
December 25, 2024 at 12:59 AM
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Do you too have a poem that cannot find a home? Open the @notatawp.bsky.social Advent Calendar Day 4 —
After careful consideration, we have decided that we can let it sleep in our inbox for a while, but we cannot offer it permanent lodging. You may wish to send your lines down the back alleys of a student-led high school journal.
December 21, 2024 at 1:34 PM
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Roving Christmas tree mascot greeters at baggage claim? I’m here for it, South Carolina!
December 21, 2024 at 3:56 AM
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This exists.
Liquor store named Bottled Poetry
December 18, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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For anyone who hates hearing their name—published thanks to @antiheroinchic.bsky.social
“Candice” I too dislike it. the hard and soft of it. Who can reach across the seas of mother and daughter?
December 10, 2024 at 2:04 AM
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When you write about the crumbling of your own marriage
December 8, 2024 at 5:53 AM
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‘tis [always] the season of #toxiccapitalism so I wrote a persona poem —
White page with black ink of a poem titled “Sonnet, Where Rhyme and Meter Fail the Poem Like Capitalism Fails the Child”
December 1, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social “When early dawn revealed her rose-red hands…” and I am subtly changed thinking of #Homer
November 23, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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Support hurricane relief in western NC & buy #loblollypress new zine UNDERSTORY. Here are the opening lines of my poem. loblollypress.com/understory
Black ink on white page, a poem titled I See Fallen Trees: like wings along Mullikin Road / north of downtown Augusta / where the I-520 haloes Georgia / and South Carolina hard /
November 23, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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My new motto.
Notecard on black background that has purple cursive writing — “Do everything as if it were the only thing in the world while all the time knowing that it doesn’t matter.”
November 21, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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Let’s go! Excited to meet y’all.
AWP letter with purple background and LA insignia with palm trees
November 21, 2024 at 2:00 AM
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My insane notes from yesterday’s singular, inspiring @dseuss.bsky.social talk and workshop — “The poem is wiser than we are…but what the fuck do I know.”
White page of scribbled notes
November 20, 2024 at 6:01 AM
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Fuck big oil.
Erasure poem that uses Dillard’s Tinker Creek to create criticism of big oil as eating us up bite by bite
November 19, 2024 at 5:56 AM
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The treasure-seat. Hrothgar would be so displeased with America.
November 17, 2024 at 10:55 PM