Kelli Russell Agodon is a bi/queer poet, writer, and editor from the Pacific Northwest. Her newest books are Dialogues with Rising Tides (Copper Canyon Press), which was named a Finalist in the Washington State Book Awards and shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize in Poetry and Demystifying the Manuscript: Essays and Interviews on Creating a Book of Poems coedited with Susan Rich. She is the cofounder of Two Sylvias Press, where she works as an editor and book cover designer. She teaches at Pacific Lutheran University's low-res MFA program, the Rainier Writing Workshop. Kelli is the cohost of the poetry series "Poems You Need" with Melissa Studdard.

Other poems by Kelli Russell Agodon in Verse Daily:
August 24, 2023:   "The Hum of the Living" "Tonight, what haunts me is remembering..."
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..."

Other poems on the web by Kelli Russell Agodon:
"I Wonder If I Need the Rapture or If I Could Just Swallow A Catastrophe and Call It Good"
"Snapshot of a Lump"
"Love Song to My Neighborhoods"
"A Mermaid Questions God"
"Neruda’s Hat"
"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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August 26, 2024:   "Unreliable History" by Alyse Knorr
January 7, 2024:   "The Fictional Bureau of Whaling" by Lucas Jorgensen
January 3, 2024:   "I Asked an Ornithologist" by Becka Mara McKay
October 17, 2023:   "Copy & Paste" by Michael Chang
September 28, 2023:   "Pastoral" by Theodora Ziolkowski
September 27, 2023:   "The Edge" by Carolene Kurien
August 21, 2023:   "[first tango]" by JD Debris
August 9, 2023:   "Unsent Message to My Brother in His Pain" by Shalini Rana
October 4, 2021:   "On Coffee Alone" by Zach Savich
June 2, 2021:   "Late Vigil" by Caleb Nolen
June 1, 2021:   "Scold's Bridle" by Jess Smith
May 30, 2021:   "God loves everybody, don't remind me" by Anthony Thomas Lombardi

May 27, 2021:   "July" by Rachel Harkai
October 17, 2016:   "self-portrait, with untruth" by Emily O'Neill
September 30, 2016:   "Red Moon" by Corinna Rosendahl
September 28, 2016:   "To Swallow These Catastrophes" by Nick Narbutas
May 9, 2016:   "The Death Spread" by Tyler Brewington
May 3, 2014:   "Sunglesses" by James Gendron
May 2, 2014:   "Telomere" by Judson Evans
May 1, 2014:   "The Yellow Thing" by Kirsten Kaschock
June 14, 2011:   "Overture to a Legend" by Bridget Talone
June 12, 2011:   "Svendborg Sound" by Rich Hilles
June 10, 2011:   "I Don't Mind the Mess that Comes from Pressing Hard..." by Matt Mauch
On Coffee Alone 22, 2010:   "I Was Using Your Mail Order Drugs" by Karyna McGlynn
May 1, 2010:   "Grunion" by Dore Kiesselbach
April 30, 2010:   "More Precisely" by Ander Monson
September 5, 2009:   "Do the Right Thing" by Adrian Matejka
June 10, 2009:   "After All This" by Richard Jackson
June 8, 2009:   "Surrender" by Dorianne Laux
November 13, 2008:   from "All the Purple Deer" by Christopher Shipman
November 12, 2008:   "Andalusia" by Matthew Rohrer
November 11, 2008:   "Every Will Builds Itself a Satellite" by Chris Tonelli

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