This collection was selected as the Second Place Winner for the MAYDAY 2024 Micro-Chapbook Poetry contest.
“I feel held in its currents of tenderness and terror— in Our Sodden Bond’s folkloric and fabulist reconstruction of girlhood as both wounding and weapon, makes it possible for childhood trauma to alchemize into a mythological resurrection. ‘Some deaths were folded up like origami and passed back and forth / like a blunt.’ Gendered violence and CSA, though devastating realities, Our Sodden Bond manifests narratives with a spiritual pulse from survival and play as liberation.”
– Angela Peñaredondo, 2024 Micro-Chapbook Contest Judge
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KELLY GRAY is the author of Instructions for an Animal Body (Moon Tide Press), Tiger Paw, Tiger Paw, Knife, Knife (Quarter Press), and The Mating Calls//of the// Specter, recipient of the Tusculum Review Chapbook Prize. Gray’s work can be found in Cream City Review, Southern Humanities Review, Witness Magazine, Cherry Tree, and ANMLY, among other places, and she is the recipient of the Neutrino Prize from Passages North, the ArtSurround Cohort Grant, and a participant in the 2023 Kenyon Review Poetry Workshop. Her next full length poetry collection is forthcoming this summer.
