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Devin Kelly

Devin Kelly
Devin Kelly earned his MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and co-hosts the Dead Rabbits Reading Series in New York City. He is the author of the collaborative chapbook with Melissa Smyth, This Cup of Absence (Anchor & Plume) and the books, Blood on Blood (Unknown Press), and In This Quiet Church of Night, I Say Amen (forthcoming 2017, Civil Coping Mechanisms). He works as a college advisor in Queens, teaches at the City College of New York, and lives in Harlem.


Running Towards My Father

On Marathons, Perfection, and the Impossibility of Intimacy
June 16, 2017  By Devin Kelly
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