Kelli Russell Agodon's newest book is Dialogues with Rising Tides from Copper Canyon Press. She is the cofounder of Two Sylvias Press where she works as an editor and book sir281 designer. Her other books include Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room, Hourglass Museum, The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts for Your Writing Practice (coauthored with Martha Silano), and Fire on Her Tongue: An Anthology of Contemporary Women's Poetry. She lives in a sleepy seaside town in Washington State on traditional lands of the Chimacum, Coast Salish, S'Klallam, and Suquamish people where she is an avid paddleboarder and hiker. She teaches at Pacific Lutheran University's low-res MFA program, the Rainier Writing Workshop. Kelli is currently part of a project between local land trusts and artists to help raise awareness for the preservation of land, ecosystems, and biodiversity called Writing the Land.

Other poems by Kelli Russell Agodon in Verse Daily:
August 9, 2021:   "Heartland" "You want me to have faith..."
February 13, 2020:   "Love in the Age of Broken Constellations" "In the planetarium..."
June 4, 2014:   "Shadowboxing Andy Warhol" "Andy Warhol speaks to me in voodoo..."
August 17, 2007:   "Saint of Marriages" " She tells him what she cannot name..."
September 29, 2005:   "Love Song to My Neighborhoods" " Sometimes I stroll through forests..."
August 6, 2004:  "A Mermaid Questions God" "As a girl, she hated the grain of anything..."

Books by Kelli Russell Agodon:

Other poems on the web by Kelli Russell Agodon:
Three poems
"Americano"
"Lightvessel"
Two poems
Three poems
Two poems
"I Don't Own Anxiety, But I Borrow It Regularly"
"Darling America,"
"Queen Me"
"Americano"
"Half Shells"
Two poems
"Sorrowful Waltz in the Garden"
Two poems
"How Damage Can Lead To Poetry"
"In The Next 50 Years So Many Animals Will Go Extinct..."
"Torn (Old Fabric)"

Kelli Russell Agodon's Website.

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