Kelly Gray
@k-gray.bsky.social
Author of Instructions for An Animal Body (Moon Tide), Mating Calls //of the// Specter (Tusculum Review Chapbook Prize). Work in Witness, Passages North, Southern Humanities, Permafrost, Pithead Chapel, Heavy Feather, Rust+Moth, etc.
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"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."
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inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
Trump’s Reign of Terror on Schools—and How We Fight Back
It’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.
inthesetimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"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.com/article/trum...
Poems up at Up the Staircase Quarterly.
February 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Poems up at Up the Staircase Quarterly.
Reposted by Kelly Gray
A fascinating poem by Jenny George from her book After Image…
February 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
A fascinating poem by Jenny George from her book After Image…
Thank 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
www.upthestaircase.org
February 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Thank 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
www.upthestaircase.org
Reposted by Kelly Gray
Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.
a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it
ALT: a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it
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February 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.
Sonoma County Educators and Parents:
Sonoma police, school district vow to keep families safe during immigration crackdown
In 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...
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January 30, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Sonoma County Educators and Parents:
Reposted by Kelly Gray
Above Mineral Springs #20
Gage Opdenbrouw
Oil on canvas
20 x 20 inches
#gageopdenbrouw #landscape #originalart
#californiaart #contemporarylandscape
Gage Opdenbrouw
Oil on canvas
20 x 20 inches
#gageopdenbrouw #landscape #originalart
#californiaart #contemporarylandscape
December 19, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Above Mineral Springs #20
Gage Opdenbrouw
Oil on canvas
20 x 20 inches
#gageopdenbrouw #landscape #originalart
#californiaart #contemporarylandscape
Gage Opdenbrouw
Oil on canvas
20 x 20 inches
#gageopdenbrouw #landscape #originalart
#californiaart #contemporarylandscape
Here'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.
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www.greenlindenpress.com/interviews-a...
Interviews & Reviews — Green Linden Press
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January 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Here'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...
www.greenlindenpress.com/interviews-a...
Rust+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.com/work/my-gran...
My Grandmother was Once a Girl | Rust & Moth
When 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...
rustandmoth.com
November 13, 2024 at 6:32 AM
Rust+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.com/work/my-gran...
Thank you Voice Mail Poems for publishing my reading of "The Coldening" in the Fall issue!
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voicemailpoems.org/2024/11/12/t...
The Coldening
by 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...
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November 13, 2024 at 6:30 AM
Thank you Voice Mail Poems for publishing my reading of "The Coldening" in the Fall issue!
voicemailpoems.org/2024/11/12/t...
voicemailpoems.org/2024/11/12/t...
Psyched that Jet Fuel Review nominated this poem for a Pushcart.
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www.jetfuelreview.com/kelly-gray-s...
Kelly Gray Spring 2024
The 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...
www.jetfuelreview.com
November 9, 2024 at 3:12 AM
Psyched that Jet Fuel Review nominated this poem for a Pushcart.
www.jetfuelreview.com/kelly-gray-s...
www.jetfuelreview.com/kelly-gray-s...
Thanks 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//
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WOOD THRUSH AS GHOST //AS TEXT//AS DIAGNOSIS//AS JOURNAL//AS ERASURE//AS POEM//AS REDDIT FORUM//AS HAIBUN//AS LIST//
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Kelly Gray – ANMLY
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November 9, 2024 at 3:09 AM
Thanks 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//
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WOOD THRUSH AS GHOST //AS TEXT//AS DIAGNOSIS//AS JOURNAL//AS ERASURE//AS POEM//AS REDDIT FORUM//AS HAIBUN//AS LIST//
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