Rise Wildly

TinaKelley’s earlier books include Abloom & Awry, Ardor, Precise, and The Gospel of Galore. She is the co-author of Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope. Kelley reported for the New York Times for a decade, and her writing has appeared in Poetry East, Southwest Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Best American Poetry 2009.

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• 1.I Wish You Had Known, When You Launched Me Why I Cried Reading This at Liss and James’ WeddingPlanting, Nearest the PrayerOn a Record James Agee Recites from MemoryHis Poems, Auden’s, Shakespeare’s, Etc.The Brother My Parents Almost AdoptedVitamin AweAdding a New HeartbeatGetting Through the A's in Angels: Their Names and Meanings2. Watching My Father Watch His WidowThe Fetal Fawn inside the Roadkilled DeerThe 87th Easter“I’m Having the Death I’d Always Hoped For”The Hill Looks Steeper, the Two Maples GoneThe Dying-in-Slow-Motion, The Woman Who Taught Me to KnitWhat is Metempsychosis?Help. My Mother is Dead. I Feel Light.All the Birds Now Silent in the Yard3. The Mutual Gratitude of Fountain and SolsticeWorld Premier, Nocturnal Bird Migration ConcertEpithalamion for Jesus and the Springfield Community ChurchTrains Running After Storms Her Thoughts That OctoberHow You Meet the Year is How You Spend the YearMap, Lewiston, Idaho, June, 1933A Dozen Secrets from GodFound, from My Daughter 4. “Would You Learn Your Lesson if I Made You Take Your Clothes Off?”“See Something, Say Something” Notes from a Survey of Home Health AidesLooking at Saint Francis in the Desert“Louis Wore His Beeper in His Coffin”Deserted Trail off the Mountain Loop HighwayMonastery for the Modern JournalistWatching All the Way Home from a Tough Interview, Seat 28A5. Three EndingsTheme and VariationsPlease Bring a MoonOn Successfully Becoming Invisible in My Own HomeOn the Lackawaxen with Kate, 2008The Music of Places Going on Without Us The Menopause DoulaFirst Weekend Ever Home AloneTo Live: The Imperative