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Resistance Essays: Reverie, Research and Lyricism

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The Ones We Lost: Writing About Grief and Loss

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Phoenix Youth Poet Laureate Spotlight Reading

Why Comics? A Meditation on Sequential Storytelling

Queer Poetry Salon

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Writing Through an Apocalypse

An Evening with Claire Vaye Watkins

Watching Movies to Make You a Better Writer with Bryan Young
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Meet Your Community 2019

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Kelly Nelson

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About Kelly Nelson

Kelly Nelson is the author of two poetry chapbooks. She lives in Tempe, teaches at ASU, and hasn’t owned a car in 20 years.

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