A Plate of Pandemic
Published Semi-annually on the Solstices
Creativity in Times of Crisis
Kelly Vance earned her MFA from Eastern Kentucky University, where she received the Emerging Writers Award for poetry in 2021. In selecting Vance for this award, Jen Currin wrote, “Vance’s voice is at turns humorous, tender, elegiac.” In addition to writing poetry, Kelly has a passion for encouraging young poets, serving as the Chair of Kentucky State Poetry Society's Annual Student Poetry Contest since 2019. She is also an adjunct professor for creative writing at Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky.
It was always so little to ask ourselves to wait in separate places for the world to end, to wear one small accessory to save someone else, meanwhile everyone eagerly chose a side, some to wait in separate places for the world to end, some to cry hoax and rebel in frenzied revelry. Oh, […]