PUBLICATIONS
POETRY
2010 - present
wordweeds.com, my poetry blog
2022
“The Reverence of Dogs,” “Reteach a Thing Its Loveliness,” “Little Rachel Dreams of Regeneration,” “The Old Phones,” “Family Organism,” “let late November,” “List of Dreams for Yeshe Walmo,” “Mother Dharma,” “D-Con,” “Sutra for Letting Go of Aversion,” in Mad Blood #7, a literary and visual arts collection published by Thornlyre Arts
2016
“of breasts and mushrooms,” in Mycoepithalamia: Mushroom Wedding Poems, a poetry collection published by Fungi Press
“Town Cat Turns,” second place winner of the Mildred Vorpahl Baass Award in the National Federation of State Poetry Societies Contest, in the 2016 NFSPS anthology, Encore
2015
“Tiny Birds,” third place winner of the Margo Award in the National Federation of State Poetry Societies Contest, in the 2015 NFSPS anthology, Encore
2013
“Waking into Sleep, Take Your Waking Slow,” and “The TNB Self Interview: Rachel Kellum,” The Nervous Breakdown (January)
2012
ah, chapbook published by Liquid Light Press
“The Story of How We Survive,” The New Verse News (July)
“If we forget there is work to be done,” and “Green Reverie,” in Lush, an international collection published by Rufous Press
2011
“April Aubade,” “Time to Wake Up,” “the yogis have a word for it,” and “Lot’s Wives” featured on ColoradoPoetsCenter.org
“Occupied,” The New Verse News (December)
“of breasts and mushrooms,” Four Corners Free Press (September)
“April Aubade,” Telluride Watch (April)
2009
“hymn of three cherries and an apricot,” Center for Integrated Arts Education (March)
2008
“Because my son announces Narnia trees! on his seventh winter solstice,” A Prairie Journal (Winter)
“To My Little Sister, Dying,” Barnwood International Poetry Magazine
“spring forward, fall back: what are you doing with your extra Hour, he asked,” Blood Lotus (Spring)
“Buddha Woman Speaks and Surrenders, Again,” and “because iphones are poems and I held yours” (nominated for the Pushcart Prize in November 2008), Slow Trains (Spring)
1997
“Because I am tired of words and flowers, for Coatlicue,” Greyrock Review
1997
“Ravens,” Nieve Roja Review
Creative Non-Fiction
2005
“Facing the Sun,” and “The Birth Rite of Samuel Rune.” Journey into Motherhood: Inspirational Stories of Natural Childbirth. Ed. Sheri Menelli. White Heart Publishing (ISBN 0974785326, 9780974785325)