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Tuesday, June 11, 2019

What Matters

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I have a blog. It’s called “WHAT MATTERS” I may start keeping that blog up. WHAT MATTERS. Like this mind blowing gift my daughter (who is...
Sunday, April 28, 2019

Solo Writing Retreat: Travel Prep

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I was obsessing about which books to take with me on my solo writing retreat when I realized I could just use my Kindle. Huge relief! I al...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

Daughters

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   I like to tell how she cried before she was born. Even before she emerged from the birth canal, she began wailing. And it is hard ...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

VOCATION

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       With National Poetry Month in mind, as well as the start tomorrow to a poetry workshop, and an upcoming poem a day challenge, I p...
Monday, February 2, 2015

And Here's What The Fuck I'm Gonna Do About It

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Writing the Body Retreat with Jen Pastiloff and Lidia Yuknavitch in Ojai, California this past weekend, the title is a prompt given to us by...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

A Room Of Our Own

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Passing It Forward: I'm excited to highlight a fellow writer's work on KellyBlog.  This piece by  Jennifer Erickson made ...
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Friday, January 23, 2015

Facebook

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  I got nothing. No status update today. Not even another selfie; I’m tapped out. I’ve been talking to you Like...
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Kelly Thompson is currently working on a memoir, the story of one woman's journey of single teenage motherhood and out of her family's fundamentalist cult. Persistence in the face of poverty, silence, and erasure ends in identity and power for the narrator and her descendants. Kelly's work has been published or anthologized in BOMB, LARB, VIDA Review, Guernica, Electric Literature, Entropy, Fatal Flaw, Oh Comely, The Rattling Wall, Dove Tales, The Rumpus, Proximity, The Writing Disorder, Witchcraft, Manifest Station, 49 Writers, Coachella Review, Lady Liberty Lit, and other literary journals. She is also the curator for the highly regarded 'Voices on Addiction' column at The Rumpus. Kelly lives in Denver, Colorado in the sunshine of the spirit. You can follow her on Twitter @stareenite.
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Kelly Thompson
Kelly Thompson is currently working on a memoir, the story of one woman's journey of single teenage motherhood and out of her family's fundamentalist cult. Persistence in the face of poverty, silence, and erasure ends in identity and power for the narrator and her descendants. Kelly's work has been published or anthologized in BOMB, LARB, VIDA Review, Guernica, Electric Literature, Entropy, Fatal Flaw, Oh Comely, The Rattling Wall, Dove Tales, The Rumpus, Proximity, The Writing Disorder, Witchcraft, Manifest Station, 49 Writers, Coachella Review, Lady Liberty Lit, and other literary journals. She is also the curator for the highly regarded 'Voices on Addiction' column at The Rumpus. Kelly lives in Denver, Colorado in the sunshine of the spirit. You can follow her on Twitter @stareenite.
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