Kelly Nelson's poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for Best of the Net and have appeared in 2 River View, I-70 Review, Watershed Review and elsewhere. She’s the recipient of a grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and was a Visiting Artist at the Regional Cultural Center in New York Mills, Minnesota. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Brandeis University and teaches Interdisciplinary Studies at Arizona State University.

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Other poems on the web by Kelly Nelson:
Two poems
Three poems
"His Mother Writes The Warden, 1955"
Three poems
Two poems
Two poems

Kelly Nelson's Website.

About Rivers I Don't Live By:

"These poems are restless. They describe concisely her themes of geographic dislocation and without saying it outright, she zeros in on a universal wish to belong. As the poems inhabited place after place, I kept wanting to know where they would lead. Nelson’s poems, idiosyncratic in form, evoked a deep sensation. Her voice shifted something within me."
—Carol Levin