Kelly Caldwell

PhDing at WashU. Words in @FenceBooks @DenverQuarterly @PacificStand etc. EIC of @Spectacle_Mag w @cassiedonish. Trans for followers, bipolar for fun. She/her.

[Kelly Caldwell @kellycalledwell]

Thrilled to have a new poem, "The Astronaut as Astronaut," up on Sixth Finch's new issue: https://t.co/Pc9TJ8X2TW

[Kelly Caldwell @kellycalledwell]

I love you I love you all assholes

[Kelly Caldwell @kellycalledwell]

@j_d_mcgregor @Spectacle_Mag I wanna like this twice

[Jonathan McGregor @j_d_mcgregor]

Some light verse for heavy times: three epigrams on children's books. Thanks, @Spectacle_Mag. https://t.co/dBhKQEtd8N

[Kelly Caldwell @kellycalledwell]

I wrote a (literary) porn short story, who wants to read it? Accepting applications

[Kelly Caldwell @kellycalledwell]

My porn drawings never get any love on Instagram

[Kelly Caldwell @kellycalledwell]

@magscolvett I just assume people are always going through a thing, it's just hard to know whether it's a green day thing or an Adele thing

[Kelly Caldwell @kellycalledwell]

@magscolvett The more I have come out as queer, the less I have cared about how I might need to hide my bad pop song binges

[Kelly Caldwell @kellycalledwell]

@aditimachado I was thinking this while making pretzels the other day.

[Kelly Caldwell @kellycalledwell]

@erinrose_mager @aminamemory @Spectacle_Mag @lighthousewrite Hey, I know that piece and art!

[Kelly Caldwell @kellycalledwell]

Everyone: quarantine pandemic!! I'm so bored, what should I do??!!

Me, unemployed and chronically ill: this is a standard day, chill out

[Kelly Caldwell @kellycalledwell]

@LilahSturges

[Kelly Caldwell @kellycalledwell]

came home from a very isolating stint in the psych hospital to a stint of isolation at home. oh well, at least I can wear jeans and makeup again

[Mississippi Review @MissReviewMag]

What color is a plum anywhere?
For this next one I’ll use charcoal and a paper tortillon.
I’ll draw a sleep plant and leave off the shadows.

-from "How We Found the Last Color" by current MR contributor @kellycalledwell, in a recent issue of @QuiddityLit. https://t.co/5GCNnnOETd

[Kelly Caldwell @kellycalledwell]

@epiktistes Sorry to hear this Andrew; but onward?

[Kelly Caldwell @kellycalledwell]

@mervatim @pamthur Yes, was thinking about the whole set of phenomenological texts on touching/not-touching faces, oops, "the Face"

[Kelly Caldwell @kellycalledwell]

@AfnielRealta @literElly It makes sense to a certain extent, but what's happening when you lock n-b and gnc into "identity/presentation" binaries is that you ossify identity and separate identity from presentation, which is never wholly possible, and should be recognized as such.

[Kelly Caldwell @kellycalledwell]

@AfnielRealta @literElly Hey, the language is still young and I'm happy to have people work out things in community and discourse, I just don't think somethings should be comm:d as finished and worthy of outrage

[Kelly Caldwell @kellycalledwell]

@brchastain @j_d_mcgregor

[Kelly Caldwell @kellycalledwell]

@literElly Yeah, I don't think there's such a clean distinction possible between non-binary and gnc. For one thing, both of them are defining themselves in opposition to a collectively agreed upon definition of gender. I mean, to be non-binary is also to not conform to gender norms.

[Kelly Caldwell @kellycalledwell]

@SandmanSimonds mee too