Kelly Houle’s poetry has appeared in CALYX, Connecticut River Review, Crab Orchard Review, Radar Poetry, Sequestrum, and other publications. In 2023 Houle was a finalist for the Arts & Letters Unclassifiable Contest and a winner of the Vivian Shipley Award from the Connecticut Poetry Society. In 2019 she received a Research and Development Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. She is also a painter.
Extinction
Summer 2024
Grapes and Pentimenti
Oil on linen 4 × 6 inchesBefore sunrise in the French market, I set out a row of colors from crumpled tubes, arranged a cluster of purple grapes to make […]
Extinction
Summer 2024
Alphabet Shell
Oil on linen 6 × 6 inchesConus spurius, what does it say — this shield you held as long as you could against a world that would grind apalm of words to […]
Extinction
Summer 2024
Figs and Silver Cup
Oil on linen10 × 8 inchesRaven, sent to fetch water in a cup, noted a cobalt bloom on ripe figs fallen from limbs the color of mahogany, the fruit sweet […]