Kelli Russell Agodon is a bi/queer poet, writer, and editor from the Pacific Northwest. Her next collection, Accidental Devotions, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in 2026. Her most recent books are Dialogues with Rising Tides, 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 teaches at Pacific Lutheran University's low-res MFA program, the Rainier Writing Workshop, and is the co-host of the poetry series "Poems You Need" with Melissa Studdard.

Other poems by Kelli Russell Agodon in Verse Daily:
September 9, 2024:   "The Naming of Things" "There is a woman we call Flock of Seagulls..."
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: "https://readalittlepoetry.com/2023/10/07/i-wonder-if-i-need-the-rapture-or-if-i-could-just-swallow-a-catastrophe-and-call-it-good-by-kelli-russell-agodon/" target="_blank"> "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.

When I Was Straight: A Tribute to Maureen Seaton
Editor: Dustin Brookshire
Other poems from When I Was Straight: A Tribute to Maureen Seaton in Verse Daily:
February 18, 2025:   "When I Was Straight" by Emma Bolden
February 16, 2025:   "When I Was Straight" by Diamond Forde
February 15, 2025:   "When I Was Straight" by Charles Jensen