Kelli Russell Agodon is a bi/queer poet and editor from the Pacific Northwest. Her latest collection, Dialogues with Rising Tides (Copper Canyon Press), was a Finalist in the Washington State Book Awards and shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize in Poetry. She recently edited the writing craft book, Demystifying the Manuscript: Essays & Interviews on Creating a Book of Poems with Susan Rich. Her collection, Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room, won both the White Pine Poetry Prize and Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year Prize in Poetry. Kelli is the cofounder of Two Sylvias Press, where she works as an editor and book cover designer. She also teaches at Pacific Lutheran University's low-res MFA program, the Rainier Writing Workshop. Kelli lives in a sleepy seaside town where she's an avid paddleboarder and hiker. She has a fondness for fedoras, typewriters, and smoked cheese.

Other poems by Kelli Russell Agodon in Verse Daily:
April 21, 2022:   "Alexa, Why Am I Falling Apart" "How often do you feel this way, this falling apart?..."
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:
"When my therapist tells me my father's trauma has been transferred to me, I think"
Three poems
"Imagined Chapels"
"When We Make Lifelines, the Universe Breathes a Little Easier"
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.

Kelli Russell Agodon on Twitter.

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May 31, 2022:   "Mosaic in Pompeii" by Diane Thiel
May 30, 2022:   "Elegy Just in Case" by Richard Jackson
May 29, 2022:   "The Isle of the Dead" by Kenneth Pobo
April 25, 2021:   "Pantoum Gleaned from a Diane Arbus Dream" by Cathy Smith Bowers
April 16, 2021:   "The Search Party" by Ronald Koertge
April 15, 2021:   "Dear Florida" by Adam Scheffler
March 17, 2012:   "The Edge of the Field" by Al Maginnes
February 28, 2011:   "The Point of a Ship in a Bottle is the Bottle" by Martin Arnold
February 17, 2011:   "Visionary" by Richard Jackson
June 8, 2010:   "Birthday" by Jay Griswold
January 10, 2008:   "The World Wakes Up" by Andrew Michael Roberts
January 8, 2008:   "Adam And Steve" by Catherine Carter
January 16, 2007:   "Bass Line" by Betsy Sholl
January 10, 2007:   "Studebaker" by Gerald Stern

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