Deborah Kelly's Fundraiser
My poems can make a difference!
Help me meet my goal, please give today.
Art Goodtimes
"whatever you want to do, do it"
$10
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Ben Goldsmith
I donated in support of this campaign.
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Sarah Goldsmith
"Because. You. Let it flow. "
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Pavlos Stavropoulos
"This is to keep you going and to inspire you to write about flying toothless old greeks ;)"
$50
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Pamela Whitworth
"so happy to support you, my dear."
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Alice Bosma
"The way you string words together makes them sing to my soul. "
$75
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N S
"Here's to seemingly superfluous things, telltale signs of life beyond the struggle for survival. Now go run around like a silly squirrel. "
$50
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Deborah Kelly
"From, Lois and Richard Kelly"
$90
Poet Bio: A fourth-generation Minneapolitan, poetry was my first love, but it was not until recent years that I returned it to the center of my life. Now, I live in Boulder, Colorado and attend workshops nearby and beyond to develop my craft. Most recently, I spent a week in residence/workshop at Tupelo Press.
Last summer I participated in a weeklong advanced workshop with Ada Limón (The Lighthouse Writers Workshop, Denver). Other workshops: One week with Jericho Brown (2016). Single-day workshops with Eileen Myles and Mark Statman in Oaxaca, Mexico (2016). One week with Michael Dennis Browne at The University of Iowa (2009).
Others have described my poetry as expression of human experience deeply founded on encounters with the natural world. I often write toward the pleasure of mind's abstractions through metaphor grounded in our living senses.
I've read my own work in Boulder, Denver, and in other towns on Colorado's Front Range and Western Slope, where a handful have been published in the local press. "Mushroom" appears in the Fall 2017 issue of The Art of Fungi Magazine. "Drama" appears in the December 2017 Issue of Stone Coast Review. "The Gamete" appears in the Spring 2018 Issue of The Fourth River.
Your support gives me vital inspiration as I write for thirty days this month.
Tupelo Press provides the canvas, I bring my words, accompanied by other fine poets, writing thirty poems in thirty days, all ours to edit and submit as we wish. 30/30 poems have been taken by over 90 journals and featured in over 40 published chapbooks, all so Tupelo Press can keep publishing exquisite and diverse voices that might never be heard otherwise.
Every dollar gives me confidence to write more, and helps the press place more poems in gorgeous books. Help me to help this distinguished press. Give today!