Kelly Sargent

Author & Artist

Kelly Sargent

Author & Artist

I have loved languages in multiple forms since I was a child. Whether it be through written, spoken, or visual means, engaging with the desire we have to connect with each other and ourselves has been a lifelong endeavor.
I feel privileged to share samples of my writing and artwork with a welcoming audience.

Bio

Born hard of hearing and adopted in Luxembourg, Kelly Sargent grew up with a deaf twin sister in Europe and the United States. She wrote for SIGNews, a national newspaper for the Deaf, and worked in educational settings with deaf students.

Her poems and artwork, including a 2021 Best of the Net nominee, have appeared or are forthcoming in more than fifty literary publications, including Rattle, Typehouse Literary Magazine, and Eunoia Review.

She is the author of a poetry chapbook entitled Seeing Voices: Poetry in Motion (Kelsay Books, 2022), a finalist in the Cordella Press Poetry Chapbook Contest.

She also wrote Lilacs & Teacups, a book of modern haiku poems, and a haiku recognized in the international 2022 Golden Triangle Haiku Contest received a placard in Washington, D.C.

She serves as Creative Nonfiction Editor of The Bookends Review and a reviewer for an organization whose mission is to make visible the artistic expression of sexual violence survivors.

Publications, current and forthcoming, include:

Akitsu Quarterly, Awakened Voices, Beyond Words, Book of Matches, Cerasus Magazine, Discretionary Love, Ephemeral Elegies, Eucalyptus & Rose, Eunoia Review, Failed Haiku-A Journal of English Senryū, The Five-Two, Frogpond, Front Porch Review, Gyroscope Review, Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology 2022, Haikuniverse, Kingfisher Journal, Modern Haiku, Moss Piglet, Newfound, New Note Poetry, One Art: A Journal of Poetry, One Sentence Poems (Ambidextrous Bloodhound Press), The Orchards Poetry Journal, Poetic Sun, Poetry Life and Times, Poetry Pea Journal, Presence, Prolific Press, Prometheus Dreaming, Prospectus, Prune Juice, The Purpled Nail (Underwood Press), Rattle, redrosethorns magazine, Rue Scribe, Sheepshead Review, Sparks of Calliope, Stardust Haiku, Stone Poetry Journal, tsuri-dōrō, Twelve House Books, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Verse-Virtual, Visual Verse, Vita Brevis Press, Wales Haiku Journal, Wingless Dreamer, Writing in a Woman’s Voice, Your Daily Poem, and more.

Prior to these poetry publications, her creative nonfiction appeared in Green Mountains Review, Reunions, and Twins magazine.

Residing in picturesque Vermont with her family, she also enjoys writing stories for children.

A children’s book entitled Sundae Sundays is due out in the fall of 2022.

Seeing Voices:

Poetry in Motion

by Kelly Sargent

A poetry chapbook includes reflections on

twinhood, deafness, and “the mirrors through

which we see, lose, and find ourselves again.”

(Kelsay Books, 2022)

Kelly Sargent makes her story the heart of

Seeing Voices: Poetry in Motion as she shares realms of experience many of us have never known. Born with a twin sister who is deaf - the poet says “her eyes were her ears” - they are adopted into a military family. Sargent, also having a significant hearing impairment, and her twin learn to communicate with “handheld voices.” She writes with deep love as her poems record their bond… The stories are poignant, heartfelt, and richly poetic.