Three Poems by Kelle Groom

Kelle Groom is the author of four poetry collections, Underwater City (University Press of Florida, 2004), Luckily (Anhinga Press, 2006), Five Kingdoms (Anhinga Press, 2010), and Spill (Anhinga Press, 2017), as well as the memoir I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl (Simon & Schuster, 2011), a Barnes & Noble Discover selection and New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and 2020 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow, Groom’s work has appeared in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Ploughshares, and Poetry. She is on the faculty of the low-residency MFA Program at Sierra Nevada University, Lake Tahoe, and is the education director at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.