Oblivescence
Finalist for the Edna Meudt Poetry Book Award
Published by & available at Red Sweater Press
Available at Bookshop & Amazon
For a signed copy, contact Kelly directly via the Contact page
"Samuels’ inquiries into accumulation and crumbling—as delicate as they are stoic—give these poems a hallowed feel."
~Allison Adair, author of The Clearing
"Oblivescence is a frank, striking record of the human experience when we consider what is lost–yes–but also what can be found."
~Joan Kwon Glass, author of Night Swim
"With grace and lyricism, Kelly R. Samuels explores the terrain of forgetting and of the forgotten, and the transformation of self..."
~Jane Newkirk, editor at Medmic
"Oblivescence is a tender tribute to mothers and daughters, to the necessity of language despite its inevitable dissolution,
and to our inexhaustible human capacity to give voice to the unsayable: “that unnamed longed for.”
~Romana Iorga, author of Temporary Skin
Video reading of title poem: "Oblivescence"
Cover Design by Kate Netwal
Finalist for the Edna Meudt Poetry Book Award
Published by & available at Red Sweater Press
Available at Bookshop & Amazon
For a signed copy, contact Kelly directly via the Contact page
"Samuels’ inquiries into accumulation and crumbling—as delicate as they are stoic—give these poems a hallowed feel."
~Allison Adair, author of The Clearing
"Oblivescence is a frank, striking record of the human experience when we consider what is lost–yes–but also what can be found."
~Joan Kwon Glass, author of Night Swim
"With grace and lyricism, Kelly R. Samuels explores the terrain of forgetting and of the forgotten, and the transformation of self..."
~Jane Newkirk, editor at Medmic
"Oblivescence is a tender tribute to mothers and daughters, to the necessity of language despite its inevitable dissolution,
and to our inexhaustible human capacity to give voice to the unsayable: “that unnamed longed for.”
~Romana Iorga, author of Temporary Skin
Video reading of title poem: "Oblivescence"
Cover Design by Kate Netwal
All the Time in the World
Published by & available at Kelsay Books
Available at Amazon
For a signed copy, contact Kelly directly via the Contact page
"This is a book of stunning ethical and poetic heights, a necessary field guide for our threatened, and only, field."
~Katie Ford, author of If You Have to Go
"Grounded in nature and politics, these poems sing with tenderness and outrage..."
~Chelsea Dingman, author of I, Divided
"These are stunning poems..."
~Linda Dove, author of Fearn
"In these poems ode and elegy touch, braid into urgent meditation on the future already lapping at the door."
~Beth Marzoni, coauthor of No Shape Bends the River So Long
Cover Art by Andre Frueh
Words Some of Us Rarely Use
Published by & available at Unsolicited Press
Available at Bookshop
For a signed copy, contact Kelly directly via the Contact page
Cover Art by Kate Netwal
Zeena / Zenobia Speaks
Published by & available at Finishing Line Press
For a signed copy, contact Kelly directly via the Contact page
Cover Art by Kate Netwal
To Marie Antoinette, from
Published by & available at dancing girl press
For a signed copy, contact Kelly directly via the Contact page
Cover Art & Design by Kristy Bowen