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Matthew Kelsey

Writer & Actor

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Recent Publication

The Purchase

Published in The Hopkins Review, Winter 2023.

Cover image of the Winter 2023 copy of the Hopkins Review

Upcoming & Past Events

Poetry Readings and Improv Shows

RHINO Release Party

6PM, Saturday, June 29

at Bookends & Beginnings, Evanston

Book release for Elsewhere: An Elegy by Faisal Mohyuddin 

4PM, Saturday, April 27, at Haymarket House, Chicago 

Appearances
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About Matthew Kelsey

Originally from Glens Falls, New York, Matthew Kelsey is a poet and actor based in Chicago. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. He has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a teaching fellowship from the Kenyon Review Young Writers Program, and an Idyllwild Arts Writers Week Fellowship.

 

Matthew has appeared in improv and sketch comedy shows at Second City (Chicago) and the Hugo House (Seattle).

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