Kelle Groom is the author of four poetry collections, Underwater City (University Press of Florida), Luckily, Five Kingdoms, and Spill (Anhinga Press), and a memoir, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl (Simon & Schuster), a B&N Discover selection and New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice. An NEA Fellow and Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow, Groom's work appears in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, New York Times, Ploughshares, and Poetry. She is on the faculty of the low-residency MFA Program at Sierra Nevada University, Lake Tahoe. Groom's memoir-in-essays, How to Live, will be published by Tupelo Press in Fall 2023. "blessed are the dead that the rain rains on," is from her poetry manuscript, Far Land.

Other poems by Kelle Groom in Verse Daily:
February 5, 2010:   "Little Wing" "Charles decorated Nagasaki with cut petals, thousands..."

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Other poems on the web by Kelle Groom:
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"L'Amoureuse"
Three poems
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"River of Grass"
"Mary Rohan's Mother"
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Three poems
"Taxonomies"

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