The Continuous Life
Kelle GroomOriginally, I shared news here from my new book HOW TO LIVE: A Memoir in Essays (Tupelo 2023). The Continuous Life (inspired by Mark Strand) explores how, as writers, we find our way forward from poem to poem, to essays & stories & books.
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Book of Miracles
(with my dad, Cape Cod)
Here in Florida, for the next three nights, it’s going to be 7 degrees with wind chill. All the taps are dripping in my 108-year-old cottage, in hopes of avoiding broken pipes.
I don’t know how to talk about my fa...
winter solstice
poem for the winter solstice
(from Five Kingdoms, Kelle Groom, Anhinga Press)
wishing you light-filled days now and in the year ahead
Swerve:
(a bird landing in my hand one November in the Beech Forest, Provincelands, MA)
For most of my adult life, I’ve been grateful for sick days and holidays as they gave me free time to write. One Thanksgiving, I abstained from all social even...
“To write at all is an act of optimism,”
(Photo: One winter in Provincetown, it snowed on the beach, and I made a snow angel.)
At the 2025 New Yorker Festival, in conversation with George Saunders and Deborah Treisman, Zadie Smith said:
“To write at all is not to completely desp...
Yellow Notebook
In the midst of the terrible news both in the world, and newly in my own family, none of which I feel I can take in, a yellow notebook arrived.
After Michael Burkard died last December, Mary Ruefle found it among his poems and drawings and...
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Poet/memoirist: NEA Fellow, MCC Fellow, Florida Book Award, award-winning memoir, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl (Simon & Schuster), 4 poetry collections, recently Spill (Anhinga). NEW: memoir-in-essays, How to Live (Tupelo Press, Oct 2023)
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