Susan Kelly-DeWitt Sacramento resident Susan Kelly-DeWitt is the inaugural poet in the California Poets Series with her book Gatherer's Alphabet (February 2022). She is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and the author of Gravitational Tug (Main Street Rag Publishing, 2020), Spider Season (Cold River Press, 2016), The Fortunate Islands (Marick Press, 2008), and a number of previous small press and online collections. Her work has also appeared in many anthologies, and in print and online journals at home and abroad. Her past professional and writing life includes having been a reviewer for Library Journal, the editor-in-chief of the online journal Perihelion, the Program Director of the Sacramento Poetry Center and the Women's Wisdom Arts Program, a Poet in the Schools and a Poet in the Prisons, a blogger for Coal Hill Review, and a longtime instructor for the UC Davis Division of Continuing Education. She is currently a member of the National Book Critics Circle, the Northern California Book Reviewers Association and a contributing editor for Poetry Flash. She is also an exhibiting visual artist.

Other poems by Susan Kelly-DeWitt in Verse Daily:
February 21, 2004:  "The Spider" "When all the creatures are assembled..."
October 27, 2002:  "Apple Blossoms" "One evening in winter / when nothing has been enough..."

Books by Susan Kelly-DeWitt:

Other poems on the web by Susan Kelly-DeWitt:
Nine poems
Two poems
Two poems
Six poems
Three poems
"Poem Built Entirely of Questions and Couplets"
Six poems
Three poems
Two poems
"Apple Blossoms"
Six poems
"Sentence"
"Drought Song"
"Summer Of The Grandmothers"
Two poems

Susan Kelly-DeWitt's Website.

About Gatherer's Alphabet:

"These luscious poems feel like small museums of infinite wonder. Gallery, butterfly, stars in autumn. The wisdom of nature, the work of angels, what women endure—I love these poems. A timeless grace breathes through this marvelous book, this bounty you'll be grateful that you read."
—Lee Herrick

"Susan Kelly-DeWitt's concentrations come to life as if in a studio, with watercolor washes and ink accentuations. As well as mother and father, ghosts and angels, words are animated characters urgently communicating— whistling to animals or dogwood gods, pinches of anger too—a tool to save us. Is she holding a pen—or a moth by its wings? Poems like 'Words' and 'The Thorne Miniatures' and the title poem gaze multi-eyed at the reader from the palm of her offering hand."
—Sandra McPherson