Tina Kelley's Rise Wildly appeared in 2020 from CavanKerry Press, joining Abloom & Awry, Precise, and The Gospel of Galore, a Washington State Book Award winner. She reported for The New York Times and wrote two nonfiction books. She received a 2023 Finalist award from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She and her husband have two children and live in Maplewood, NJ.

Other poems by Poet Name in Verse Daily:
September 30, 2017:   "The Music of Places Going on Without Us" "Four times every minute the twelve-tanned sea shoots a white fusetip..."
September 30, 2013:   "Battering Robin Syndrome" "He has split his beak on my view...."
March 5, 2003:  "Having Evolved From Trees" "We are hazel-eyed. / Some things we are certain of..."
February 28, 2003:  "Immaculate" "He took me to the new world. He wanted privacy..."
February 11, 2003:  "Battering Robin Syndrome" "He has split his beak on my view..."

Other poems on the web by Tina Kelley:
Two poems
Seven poems
Six poems
"Like You Are, for Me"
"Between Brothers"
"Don't Die in"
"Avimancy"

Tina Kelley's Website.

Tina Kelley on Twitter.

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