Kelly Gray

So excited for this event!

Hi GT! See you Friday! 🖤

Trump’s Reign of Terror on Schools—and How We Fight Back It’s not enough to be afraid of the laws and rules we don’t want to see in schools. We have to clarify our visions of what we are fighting for.

"Lest all this ​“dream” talk sound soft and squishy and immaterial, it’s imperative to understand this nightmarish moment as actually being a reflection of someone else’s dream."

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"I woke up, looked in the mirror & there I wasn’t: tiny tits on a too-huge ribcage." SO GOOD.

Poems up at Up the Staircase Quarterly.

A fascinating poem by Jenny George from her book After Image…

Thank you @aprilmbratten.bsky.social for all your time on this! 🖤

Stunning collage of figure standing on a staircase, titled Transgender Latina. Bold greens, reds, blues and purples.

Thank you Up The Staircase Quarterly for publishing two of my poems alongside these dreamy poets. Plus the cover art, gorgeous. Transgender Latina, by Ernesto Beckford.

www.upthestaircase.org

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Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.

Sonoma police, school district vow to keep families safe during immigration crackdown In an attempt to reassure many alarmed local residents as the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown continues, Sonoma Valley law enforcement and school leaders emphasized that they will continu...

Sonoma County Educators and Parents:

There you are. You did it!

Above Mineral Springs #20
Gage Opdenbrouw
Oil on canvas
20 x 20 inches

#gageopdenbrouw #landscape #originalart
#californiaart #contemporarylandscape

Thank you so much for publishing this piece!

I still wish we had recorded our initial zoom meeting, but alas, somethings are just for the memory bank. 💓

It sure does.

Here's an interview I did with the lovely @subhaga.bsky.social on their book Transitory. Thanks to Green Linden Press for giving this conversation about lineage, trans lives, and the power-of-the-poetic a home.

www.greenlindenpress.com/interviews-a...

Hiiiiiii!

@voicemailpoems.bsky.social 🖤

My Grandmother was Once a Girl | Rust & Moth When you turn her hands over to reveal palms, you will find death almost pretty in tender holding. If you turn them over again, you will find paper skin, veins knotted with caducity. Her face is a wet...

Rust+Moth does such a stellar job curating issues. This one is dark and moody, like a Tom Waits album.
rustandmoth.com/work/my-gran...

The Coldening by Kelly Gray VOICEMAIL POEMS · "The Coldening" by Kelly Gray The leaving was such that each applein the orchard glassed over into ghost-form on a single night. Centers rotted, dropped out,only transl...

Thank you Voice Mail Poems for publishing my reading of "The Coldening" in the Fall issue!
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Kelly Gray Spring 2024 The Coldening The leaving was such that each apple in the orchard glassed over into ghost-form on a single night. Centers rotted, dropped out, only translucent orbs at the end of wooded knots...

Psyched that Jet Fuel Review nominated this poem for a Pushcart.
www.jetfuelreview.com/kelly-gray-s...

Thanks for making space for this work @anmlymag.bsky.social and @sarahclark.bsky.social. 🖤
WOOD THRUSH AS GHOST //AS TEXT//AS DIAGNOSIS//AS JOURNAL//AS ERASURE//AS POEM//AS REDDIT FORUM//AS HAIBUN//AS LIST//
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