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Kelleen Zubick

Kelleen Zubick is a poet living in Denver whose work has been published in numerous journals, including december, Clackamas Literary Review, and Michigan State University Libraries Short Edition: Water. She earned her MFA from Arizona State University and has been awarded residencies by the Anderson Center and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Her full-length poetry manuscript Travelogue was a 2020 National Poetry Series finalist.

Poetry

Winter 2025

Backward View on a Forward Train

By Kelleen Zubick

The Kenyon Review · “Backward View on a Forward Train” by Kelleen Zubick The mind, too, can do this—move seconds, minutes, and milesforward while registeringwhat’s happening in hindsight.Every forest is […]