Quiet Poetry by Karen Kelsay
Poetry news 2012
Launched Daffydowndilly Press. A publisher of children's poetry books.
Started The Aldrich Press a book company for advanced poets who write free verse poetry, and Alabaster Leaves a publishing company that works with new and mid-career poets.
Poetry news 2011
Launched White Violet Press, a publishing company that
Pushcart Nomination from Trinacria
Pushcart Nomination from Fortunate Childe Publications
Fire in the Pasture available here
Interview at Thick With Conviction Poetry Journal
by Arielle Lancaster-LaBrea
Interview at A Motley Vision
by Tyler Chadwick
Received an honorable mention
in The Lyric for my poem "Captain Lucian"
Lavender Song ( Fortunate Childe 2011)
A book of formal poetry
Fire in the Pasture (Peculiar Pages 2011)
LDS Anthology including 82 poets
Tipping the Sacred Cow (Fortunate Childe 2011)
Anthology
February Featured Poet
Now listed in
My new book Dove on a Church Bench,
to be released April 2011
(Punkin House Press)
Hear Zoe Guilherme read my poem:
In a Hat Box on You Tube
Publishing has invited me to contribute to their forthcoming anthology which includes 82 published LDS poets from the past ten years~~ due out this summer.
Lavender Song~
A book of Formal Poetry
by Fortunate Childe Press
Read what other editors say:
Karen Kelsay's Lavender Song is a delectable collection of perfect quatrains, tercets, and the occasional sonnet—a poetic gathering that the Elizabethans would have called “a garland of Delights.” Kelsay's subject matter runs the gamut from nature and music and the season to English homes and Irish fairies, as well as from Suzanne and the Elders to Anne Bradstreet. In a literary scene where oversubstituted feet make too many allegedly formal poems unrecognizable, Karen Kelsay's limpid iambic pentameters are a welcome respite and a joy to peruse.
- Joseph S. Salemi
Editor of TRINACRIA
Reading these poems is like handling some lovely hand-made, carefully-wrought artefact from an age when craftsmanship and elegance still remained sovereign virtues. Karen Kelsay eschews cheap gimcrack-trendy modernisms and postmodernisms, and instead evokes a more organically traditional aesthetic and praxis. It is refreshing to read poetry that, far from urgently straining for effect and ersatz novelty, quietly and touchingly speaks to more durable human virtues. Yet within this exquisitely traditional poetic vision, Ms. Kelsay addresses concerns that are as relevant today as they ever were, and she does this from her own unique perspective, and in her own authentic voice. This is poetry that enriches the reader: and thank goodness such poetry is still being written!
Paul Christian Stevens, Editor of The Chimaera Literary Miscellany and The Flea Broadsheets
Karen Kelsay is a courageous poet: courageous to imbue her poetry with love, compassion, empathy and spirituality at a time when such things are out of favor in literary circles. For those of us who still believe that art should be moving, her poetry is like a breath of fresh, lavender-scented air.
- Michael R Burch, Editor of The HyperTexts
These poems rehearse their subject matter with charming magic of language, sorcery of phrase, the spell of measured, proper words. It is music, chant, and liturgy, the commonplace ensorcelled.
- David W. Landrum, Editor of Lucid Rhythms
