Kendra DeColo is the author of three poetry collections: I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers From the World (BOA Editions, 2021), My Dinner with Ron Jeremy (Third Man Books, 2016) and Thieves in the Afterlife (Saturnalia Books, 2014), selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the 2013 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. She co-wrote a chapbook with Ellen Bass, Graffitied Heart: Poems in Conversation & A Conversation (Slapering Hol Press, 2024), and Low Budget Movie (Diode, 2021), a collaborative chapbook written with Tyler Mills. She has performed her work in comedy clubs and music venues across the country including the Newport Folk Festival and was a recent guest editor for Poem-a-Day. She lives with her family in Richmond Virginia.

Other poems by Kendra DeColo in Verse Daily:
June 8, 2014:   "God is a Capitalist" "I, too, want honesty in exchange for my good money, a warm body..."

Other poems on the web by Kendra DeColo:
Two poems
Six poems
Five poems
"I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from The World Anymore"
Three poems
"I Can't Stop Thinking about the Room"
"After Hours, Provincetown Cemetery"
Two poems
"Next to the Gas Station That Sells Chicken Wings"
"Vajazzled"

Kendra DeColo's Website.