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December Updates
Happy holidays from Kelsay Books! We extend our warmest wishes to you and your loved ones—may your season be full of celebration.
Between the Women...
November News
November's front page news is that our annual Women's Poetry Contest is open for submissions! We are delighted to welcome Gail White as our 2024 g...
October: Over and Out
The Orchards is now open for submissions. Details below!
Season's greetings to our ghouls, ghosts, and witches. As we reap the harvest, The Orcha...
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!
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!
Introduction
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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Nominated covers by Shay Culligan for the Eric Hoffer Award. (@karenkelsaydavies)...
Form Fundamentals
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:
Print copies of The Orchards: Winter 2023 now available!
Delisa left her role at...
Dancing in December
Advent
Dark times. December.
Earth’s axis on the slant
and the minutes fall from the day
a few at a time.
So we outsleep the dark,
sleepwalk...
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