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Kelly Sargent

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A hearing impaired author and artist born and adopted in Luxembourg, Kelly Sargent has written for SIGNews, a newspaper for the Deaf and HOH community, and worked with Deaf students in education. She currently serves as Creative Nonfiction Editor of The Bookends Review and on the Editorial Board of Beyond Words. She is the author of an award-nominated memoir in verse entitled Seeing Voices: Poetry in Motion, in which she reflects on her experiences growing up with a deaf twin sister in Europe and the United States.

Links to several book reviews appear on her book page at Kelsay Books:
https://kelsaybooks.com/products/seei...

Seeing Voices: Poetry in Motion can also be found at RIT in Rochester, New York in the poetry section of the universi A hearing impaired author and artist born and adopted in Luxembourg, Kelly Sargent has written for SIGNews, a newspaper for the Deaf and HOH community, and worked with Deaf students in education. She currently serves as Creative Nonfiction Editor of The Bookends Review and on the Editorial Board of Beyond Words. She is the author of an award-nominated memoir in verse entitled Seeing Voices: Poetry in Motion, in which she reflects on her experiences growing up with a deaf twin sister in Europe and the United States.

Links to several book reviews appear on her book page at Kelsay Books:
https://kelsaybooks.com/products/seei...

Seeing Voices: Poetry in Motion can also be found at RIT in Rochester, New York in the poetry section of the university’s library.

A second memoir in verse entitled Echoes in My Eyes was published by Kelsay Books in March 2024.

She is also the author of a collection of modern haiku and senryu poems entitled Bookmarks (Red Moon Press, 2023). Short form poetry honors include: The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Award for Individual Poems 2022 and 2023 (Nominations); The H. Gene Murtha Memorial Senryu Contest 2023 (Honorable Mention); Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Competition 2023 (Honorable Mention); Golden Haiku Poetry Contest 2022 (Recognition); The Heron’s Nest Readers' Choice Awards 2022 (Special Mention); and The Mukai Haiku Festival Poetry Competition 2023 (Winner, Nature category). Her Poet Profile at The Haiku Foundation appears here: https://thehaikufoundation.org/poet-d...

Other cover art and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in more than eighty literary publications in the United States and abroad, most recently including Rattle, Chestnut Review, and Broad River Review. Honors include: The Ron Rash Award in Poetry 2023 (Finalist); Eric Hoffer Award 2022 (Nomination); and Best of the Net 2021 and 2023 (Nominations).

She is also the author of a children’s storybook entitled Sundae Sundays, Winner of the 2023 Firebird Book Award (Children’s Inspirational).

Watch Storytime Pup Kids Books Read Aloud - Sundae Sundays here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTaUO...
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	Seeing Voices: Poetry in Motion it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Kelly Sargent is now friends with Bernadette O'Reilly
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Kelly Sargent is now following Samantha Kolber Author of Birth of a Daughter
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Kelly Sargent rated a book it was amazing Birth of a Daughter by Samantha Kolber (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
As a mother of a now grown daughter, myself, Samantha Kolber’s powerful collection spoke directly to my heart. Favorite poems include “Birth of a Daughter” (“I birth myself anew/ as I birth you, daughter.”) and “To My Daughter Sleeping Soundly in the ...more
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Kelly Sargent and 1 other person liked Bernadette O'Reilly's review of Echoes in My Eyes: "In this collection of fourteen poems the author Kelly Sargent took this reader into a world of beauty, magic, creativity, learning, struggle, grief,. The poem Seeing Voices, in this collection, can't but touch the heart of every reader. Make a cup of" Read more of this review »
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Richard Thomas led me on a fascinating journey in his recently published book, Faunistics: A Collection of Wild Haiku and Illustrations, continent-hopping and encountering both familiar and exotic wildlife at every turn of the page. As a New Englande ...more
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