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About Candice Kelsey

Candice Kelsey's debut book of poetry Still I Am Pushing just released with Finishing Line Press. Her poetry has appeared in Poets Reading the News, Poet Lore, and others while her micro-chapbook The Pier House was recently released by the Origami Poems Project. She won the 2019 Two Sisters Writing's Steve Carr Contest, received Honorable Mention for Common Ground's 2019 Poetry Contest, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Currently, she is working with the O, Miami Poetry Festival on an exciting project. An educator in Los Angeles for 21 years, she is devoted to working with young writers.

Two poems by Candice Kelsey

Candice Kelsey

in the garden / credit: de

like a collapsed lung A poem walks into a pandemic and starts tearing up its lines to make medical grade masks tossing its punctuation tiny prayers darkening the emptiness between its … [Read more...]

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Empty Mirror

Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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