Donika Kelly is the author of The Renunciations, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and Bestiary, the winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Kelly is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and a founding member of the collective Poets at the End of the World. She currently lives in Iowa City, where she teaches creative writing at the University of Iowa.
Luminous Gender Vessel
Fall 2023
Self-Portrait: A Triptych
And after Draped across the foot of the bed, some mute thing wrecked down to my constituent parts. The animals that come to live as my body — the stomach and […]
Luminous Gender Vessel
Fall 2023
Someone’s at the Door
Confused pessary for ossuary plastic ring for a house of bones a stone box for the sinking earth another way to imagine collapse prolapsarian the apple its seeds its vascular […]