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Just Listen to Yourself 2020

Biography

Kelly Harris-DeBerry is a writer and teacher. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass. She has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and Cave Canem. Some of her other publishing credits include: Torch Literary Magazine, The National Parks Service Centennial Commemoration publication with Sonia Sanchez, Yale University's Caduceus Journal, Southern Review, Say it Loud: Poems for James Brown and many more. Her podcast for About Place Journal called, "Congo Square: Sustaining the Sacred Post-Katrina" highlights her talents as a producer and researcher. In 2017, she presented "Black Love: A Sustaining Force Post-Katrina" at the national Black Love symposium celebrating the 80th anniversary of Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Kelly is a former  guest poetry editor for Bayou Magazine at the University of New Orleans and has served her literary community on various community boards. Kelly served as the New Orleans Literary Coordinator for Poets & Writers Inc. for its United States of Writing Initiative to support writers in New Orleans and surrounding parishes for two years.

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Poems Read 2020

45 Coats
It's a Girl
Push it (and see what happens)
For the Women Who Save Me
Sometimes Life Changes Its Mind

Works

Freedome Knows My Name - cover
Freedom Knows My Name (Xavier Review Press, New Orleans) is set for release in June 2020. Introduction by Kalamu ya Salaam.

 

Article in 64 Parishes: I Never Scream: The quiet poems and powerful legacy of Pinkie Gordon Lane by Kelly A. Harris, Summer 2018