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  Kay Poema

Publications 

Awards/Nominations

Best of the Net Nomination
for poem "Girl"

Bronx Poet Laureate
​2023-2025

Pushcart Nomination
for poem "Girl"

The Esther Unger Poetry Prize

America
for Langston Hughes


The David Dortort Prize in Creative Writing (Non-Fiction)
Little Girls, What Has Ruined You?
 Published Work
​

Midnight & Indigo
Little Girls, What Has Ruined You?

Poetry House Zine
What I have Learned

The Night Heron Barks
Whitewashed

Bangalore Review

One Night Stand 

BigCityLit
Girl
​

Finishing line Press
Diary of an Intercessor

America (The Jesuit Review of Faith and Culture)
Daughter Hymn

(RE) An Ideas Journal
Reimagine


433
Beyond the Window after Salvador Dali's Figure at Window 
&
Watching You Sleep


Lily Poetry Review Books
​Cry Sweat Bleed 

​Pithead Chapel  
Truth

Rattlecast  
We Are Loners
(for my brother
)


K’in   
Magic (for Cynthia Cruz)

Lily Poetry Review  
Hoodie Regrets (for Trayvon Martin)
&
​Waiting for the Morning


The Ekphrastic Review  
Dear Frida (for Frida Kahlo's Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird)

Rascal   
Wait (for Us)

The Free Library of the Internet Void  
And  &  Maybe

PRONG & POSY  
Privacy

​The Write Launch  
Untitled #5,
We Are Loners,
​& For Kalief


The Voices Project 
Constructing a Dream (An Ode for Zaire)

Mothers Always Write   
Before You Were My Child (for Micah)

Moko Caribbean Arts and Letters  
Black or Brown, Sisters (for Melissa) & Harlem

Brown Molasses Sunday: An Anthology of Black Women Writers
Girl in Burgundy Dress & Father

The American Aesthetic  
​My Daddy Sings



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Interviews

​​Canvas Rebel Interview 
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Mott Haven Herald
Meet Bronx Poet Laureate Kerryanne Bell

Read Here

BronxNet  Interview with Rhina Valentin
Watch Here
Fox 5 News Interview
​Kay Bell Named Bronx Poet Laureate

Watch Here
BronxTimes: Second-Ever Bronx Poet Laureate  Kay Bell Ready  To Teach  and Learn
Read Here
CCNY alumna Kay Bell is the 2023-2025 Bronx Poet Laureate
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Hostos Alumna Becomes 2023-2025 Bronx Poet Laureate
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Black America and COVID by Sonja Killebrew Interview 029 with Kay Bell 
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Our Town: (Kay Bell) Intervening on the Behalf of Humanity Read Here
Oye Drum:
​An Interview with Kay Bell: A discussion on faith, form, family and her new book 
Diary of an Intercessor

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Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Kay Bell
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​Wombwell Rainbow Interviews Kay Bell & Cry Sweat Bleed Write
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