Susan Kelly-DeWitt is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and the author of Frangible Operas (Gunpowder Press, 2024), Gatherer's Alphabet (Gunpowder Press, CA Poets Prize, 2022), Gravitational Tug (Main Street Rag, 2020), Spider Season (Cold River Press, 2016), The Fortunate Islands (Marick Press, 2008) and a number of previous online and small press collections. Her work has also appeared in many anthologies, and in print and online journals at home and abroad. She is currently a member of the National Book Critics Circle, the Northern California Book Reviewers Association and a contributing editor for Poetry Flash.

Other poems by Susan Kelly-DeWitt in Verse Daily:
March 12, 2022:   "Autumnal Equinox" "The stars clicked on..."
February 21, 2004:  "The Spider" "When all the creatures are assembled..."
October 27, 2002:  "Apple Blossoms" "One evening in winter / when nothing has been enough..."

Other poems on the web by Susan Kelly-DeWitt:
Nine poems
Two poems
Two poems
Six poems
Three poems
"Poem Built Entirely of Questions and Couplets"
Six poems
Three poems
Two poems
"Apple Blossoms"
Six poems
"Sentence"
"Drought Song"
"Summer Of The Grandmothers"
Two poems

Susan Kelly-DeWitt's Website.

About Frangible Operas:

"'Tonight the bells of the flowers ring out,' begins the title poem in Susan Kelly-DeWitt's exquisite new collection, and you will want to stop and listen. Frangible Operas is a book of honed astonishments. I love the way each line pays attention and makes you attend, the way each poem lets you breathe before its ending takes away your breath. When Kelly-DeWitt describes a woman's arms in a painting by Raphael as forming 'a perfect basketry,' she might as well be describing her own poems and the impeccably artful way they contain whole worlds."
—Susan Cohen

"The diversity of forms and subjects in Susan Kelly-DeWitt's Frangible Operas is breathtaking. With grace, precision, insight, and care, she engages nearly every aspect of our world—the political, the natural, the theoretical, the familial, the theological, the personal. One section of the book is devoted entirely to poems about works of art, ranging from Rembrandt to Diane Arbus—a fitting metaphor for the expansive reach of her vision. These poems may span over four decades of writing, but the poems of Frangible Operas will hold their notes for as long as we are singing."
—Dean Rader

"In Frangible Operas, Susan Kelly-DeWitt is a seer at the height of her formidable artistic powers, gathering parallel realities, fractured light, music of blue flowers, syllables of leaves, stars fallen in nets we cast, and the unseen seeds of our imaginations, such that with every vulnerable song we experience the wholeness of what's sacred — grief, joy, love, hope in wonder. These exquisite poems, their stunning imagery, expansive and focused, witness 'the wilderness inside us,' even as they 'pulse with the energy of the soul's primal blast.'"
—William O'Daly

"In Frangible Operas, a couple waits for the bus, 'The old man was turned / toward her in a half-twist, / like a landlocked diver- / ...the only fine fish / in his sea—or, as if she was / the last magic flower...' While the poet teaches poems to prisoners, and listens to the trees and birds, she lets death be everywhere, ever present as rain, hummingbirds, cold air, and clouds. 'We will think we are still dreaming / when the ghosts of the mothers and fathers arrive, / when they hold hands with us, singing.'"
—Joyce Jenkins