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Kelle Groom

Kelle Groom is the author of a memoir, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl, and three collections of poetry, Five Kingdoms, Luckily, (a Florida Book Award winner) and Underwater City. Her work has appeared in AGNI, The Gettysburg Review, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and Poetry.

Oh don’t

By Kelle Groom
Poetry•Dismissing Africa - Vol. XXII (2009)

—Albumen silver print attributed to F.M. Parkes & Reeves the spirit wrote after the Civil War, in cloudy script like you might expect from someone without hands, the mediums busy with so many dead, collective push into the other world, all of us calling. Down by the river I remembered sawdust, his guitar, two or… [Read More]

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