What do Texts and Poems Have in Common? (Grades 7-12)

Ever wanted to turn a text, DM, or even a breakup letter into a poem? Welcome to epistolary poetry! Bring your phones and explore the art of writing letter poems with local author Kelly Gray. Grades 7-12.
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Kelly Gray’s poetry appears or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, AGNI, Boulevard, Salt Hill Journal, ZYZZYVA, wildness, Redivider, New Letters, and the Florida Review, among other places. She is the author of Instructions for an Animal Body (Moon Tide Press, 2021), The Mating Calls//of the// Specter (Tusculum Review Chapbook Prize, 2023), Our Sodden Bond (MAYDAY Chapbook Prize, 2025), and Dilapitatia (Moon Tide Press, 2025), and has received support from the Kenyon Review Workshop and the Creative Sonoma Cohort Grant. Gray lives with her family in a cabin in the woods and in addition to her four other jobs, she teaches poetry in rural public schools.