“So much has happened / that I would never have known / I could remember.” In this Silo City Reading Series video, Donika Kelly reads her poem “Suicide Watch: Spring,” which appears in her third poetry collection, The Natural Order of Things (Graywolf Press, 2025). Read a profile of Kelly by Brian Gresko in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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