The Asshole’s Cat
About 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.
More Poetry
At a gallery in SoHo, a large screen TV beams a live feed of an operating room in Midtown where the artist’s face will be surgically altered to give her the Mona Lisa’s big brow. She once displayed her menstruating…
In the mornings he pulled on the trousers of the day but could not choose between his corn belt and his bible belt.
“For Protection” he says smearing goop across my forehead. My father is a sculptor, And I am the wax figure he created. With the help of his rough working hands, On my face, he layers-on a sheet of Vaseline. Staring…