An afternoon of poetry with Kelly Gray!

Join us for a splendid afternoon of poetry and community as we welcome Kelly Gray, who'll be reading from her new collection Dilapitatia.

Bring a lunch, have a picnic and don't forget the sunscreen!

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Welcome — and thanks!

Praise for Dilapitatia

“'I can sing two songs, one a lullaby, one a M**der ballad,'” Kelly Gray writes in Dilapitatia, a book that investigates fantasy and construct as cure for ruin, for dilapidation. The voice in this astonishing book startles with wisdom, and sparkles with lyricism, and doesn’t take a single prisoner." - James Allen Hall, author of Romantic Comedy

“Dilapitatia is defined in the poet’s opening, prefatory poem as Disorder Class: Obsession, and there is an artful obsession in these poems. Gray’s mastery of imagery is on vivid display in a voice resplendent with the tones and textures of the natural world.." - Subhaga Crystal Bacon, author of the Lambda Literary Finalist, Transitory

About Kelly Gray

Kelly Gray is the author of Instructions for an Animal Body (Moon Tide Press, 2021), The Mating Calls//of the// Specter (Tusculum Review Chapbook Prize, 2023), Our Sodden Bond (MAYDAY Poetry Prize, 2025), and Dilapitatia (Moon Tide Press, 2025) and is the recipient of the Neutrino Prize from Passages North and the ArtSurround Cohort Grant.

Gray’s work can be found in Witness Magazine, Cream City Review, ANMLY, Rust & Moth, Cherry Tree, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere. Gray lives with her family in a cabin in the woods, nine miles and seven fence posts away from the ocean, and teaches poetry in public schools.

writekgray.com

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