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Kelly
Cass Falzone, mother, writer, educator, and clinician,
developed Poet People in order to nurture, support and
celebrate writers and their words.
Kelly’s poetry has appeared (or is forthcoming)
in Clackamas Literary Review, Poets On:,
Squaw Valley Review, Cumberland Poetry Review, The Journal
of Poetry Therapy, and the anthologies: Essential Love,
Not Your Mama’s Cookbook, and Afterwords:
writing on grief and loss. Kelly’s work has
been nominated for The Pushcart Prize, was
a semi-finalist in the “Discovery”/The
Nation contest, and has been awarded prizes and
recognition from the Tennessee Writers Alliance, the
Knoxville Writers Guild, and the Chester H. Jones Foundation.
Recent theatre projects showcasing her work have included
Nashville Actors’ Bridge Ensemble’s New
Works Lab, and Green Room Projects’ Conjure
Women. She regularly appears with spoken-word artists
Ami Mattison and Minton Sparks, and has read her work
at festivals such as the Southern Festival of Books
and Ladyfest South. A member of both the Key West Writers
Workshop and The Community of Writers at Squaw Valley,
Kelly has studied under the guidance of such master
poets as: Sharon Olds, Lucille Clifton, Gerald Stern,
Tom Sleigh, Brenda Hillman and Kate Daniels.
Born in the Bronx and raised in Rochester, New York,
Kelly received her B.A. in English and her M.S.Ed. in
Counselor Education from the SUNY Colleges at Fredonia
and Brockport. Kelly now resides in Nashville, Tennessee,
where she worked for ten years as an adolescent and
family therapist at Oasis Center. She currently facilitates
Swim With Words writing workshops in the Nashville area.
To read
some of Kelly’s poems, click
here.
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