Kimberly Reyes

Kimberly Reyes is a poet, essayist, pop culture scholar, and the author of the upcoming poetry collection Bloodletting (Omnidawn 2025), as well as the poetry collections vanishing point. (Omnidawn 2023) and Running to Stand Still (Omnidawn 2019). Kimberly has received fellowships, scholarships, and prizes from the Poetry Foundation, the Fulbright Program, the Academy of American Poets, CantoMundo, and many other places. Her work has been published in various outlets including The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Village Voice, Poetry Review, Poetry London, The Stinging Fly, and American Poets Magazine. A doctoral student in creative writing at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln, Kimberly braves Midwest winds while ping-ponging between the U.S. coastlines and Ireland.

"Nesting" and "The Buzz"

(I’ve never met a woman who would disembowel
to make a moot point).