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September Salutations
Introduction
It's fall, y'all! While you're hosting poetry readings far and wide, we're preparing our Winter 2024 issue of The Orchards. If you...
Readings, Awards, and More!
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Introduction
Kelsay Books has two virtual, free readings coming up. We were thrilled to gather as a team and as poets for our summer showcase, a...
Summer of Kel-Slay
Introduction
It's been a busy season, to say the least. I’m happy to report that production remains on schedule, so all books started in June are ...
Poetry month MAY be over, but summer is reading & awards season!
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In April's blog and newsletter, we announced featured readers and open mics on May 14th at Newtown Bookshop in Pennsylvania and May 1...
Poetry Month: New moon, new books, events, awards and more!
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Intro
Are you participating in Escapril? Tag us @karenkelsaydavies in your poem-a-day posts if so, we love to share our authors’ inspiration! Pl...
March Horizons
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Form Fundamentals
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Introduction
An editing project I worked on recently got me thinking about form again. Structure is a huge draw to poetry as an art form, s...
Season of Change
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Season of Change
Highlights:Â
Print copies of The Orchards: Winter 2023Â now available!
Delisa left her role at...
Dancing in December
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Advent
Dark times. December.Â
Earth’s axis on the slant
and the minutes fall from the day
a few at a time.
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So we outsleep the dark,Â
sleepwalk...
November always seemed to me...
Introduction
Our theme this month derives from none other than Emily Dickinson, not a poem of her’s but rather a prosaic letter to a friend she pe...
O hushed October
October
O hushed October morning mild,Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;To-morrow's wind, if it be wild,Should waste them all.The crows abo...
September Spectacular
Check out the new Poetic Excellence section to discover more of what makes our first blog of the ’bers so spectacular!
— Olivia Loftis, Kelsay B...
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