Kelli agodon biography of william shakespeare

  • Kelli Russell Agodon is the author of Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room She was born and raised in Seattle and educated at the University of Washington.
  • Talking Writing art director John Vogel interviewed poet, writer, and editor Kelli Russell Agodon.
  • Kelli Russell Agodon is the cofounder of Two Sylvias Press and lives in a sleepy seaside town in Washington State on traditional lands.

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    The A-List: Notes from my Electric Typewriter

    Dear Creative Confidantes:

    Welcome to your first every-so-often electronic postcard.

    As creative people, we try to man our way in the modern world holding our art in one grabb and driving the bil with the other.  We try and do our best put art and beauty at the center of our lives. And sometime we do.  Though sometime we coast through a stop sign or find ourselves in a drive-thru ordering a milkshake.  

    Life, my friends, happens.

    So when you find yourself in the middle of life wondering, the way David Byrne from the Talking Heads asks himself, Well, how did I get here? in the song "Once in a Lifetime," look for beauty.  Look for a weed and call it a wildflower.

    Enjoy each temporary moment and try to find the art in it.

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    The Poet Tarot & Guidebook bygd Two Sylvias Press: A Kickstarter Campaign (Become a backer or get a Poet Tarot deck of your own)

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    Before I Walk Out the Door, I Grab My Switchblade Because sadness wears a leather jacket, I carry a butterfly knife— all weapons should have names so tender —I know a woman who sliced the tops of her thighs while telling her teenage daughter how wonderful the world was like loving the butterfly while pulling off your own wings holding the hand of a toddler and dragging along the devil with the other feeding dolphins while wrapped in fish netting maybe this is why I keep a switchblade in my bra you never know who needs freeing or who is drowning in what’s been thrown away when I see this woman in her cargo shorts setting a blanket out on a blacktop beach I sit next to her and tie us together with haloes of fireflies with plastic bags and twist ties with daisy chains with the underside of a cloud from the top of a mountain if you look down if you turn yourself to another view if you stare too long at the shadows of women you can hardly tell us apart.   Men Write Us Love Poems'Ti

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    Welcome Friends

    #20 in the Poetry Potluck Series, celebrating National Poetry Month 2011.



    Emily: “I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.”

    She enters, and a hush falls upon the room.

    Our final Potluck Poet is here!

    No better way to top off a poetry feast than with a tasty soup poem cooked up by the lovely and supremely talented Kelli Russell Agodon! I first learned about Kelli through Susan Rich, who was a surprise guest at last year’s potluck. After reading Kelli’s latest book, Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room(White Pine Press, 2010), I knew I just had to offer it as a prize in this year’s Big Poetry Giveaway.

    The Emily Dickinson Room of the title refers to a guest room at the Sylvia Beach Hotel (“truly a hotel for book lovers”), located at Nye Beach, Oregon. All the rooms are named after famous authors such as Shakespeare, A