Tina Kelley

Tina Kelley’s third collection of poetry, Abloom and Awry, is coming soon from CavanKerry Press. Her other poetry books are Precise and The Gospel of Galore, winner of a 2003 Washington State Book Award, and she co-authored Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope. Winner of the 2014 New Jersey Poets Prize, she was a reporter at The New York Times for a decade, sharing in a staff Pulitzer for coverage of the September 11 attacks. She lives in Maplewood, NJ with her husband and two children.

Rain. Saturday Morning. Training Wheels.

We’re far from the seventeen flavors of hell I run across in the course of my week, things that are just never good: glue traps. outgrown swing sets. waiting rooms.

Poetry Tina Kelley

The Kids Play at the Shelter, Two Friday Nights After Little G Shot Himself Under the Boardwalk

Simon says play. The kids say how. No one ever said. Simon says do the robot. Simon says do the robot while whistling Happy Birthday. The robot dancers giggle. OK stop. Simon didn’t say stop. Simon says keep up with…

Poetry Tina Kelley