HUSHPUPPY: short form poetry

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Hushpuppy by Kelly Moyer gives it to the reader straight via experimental ku that are, well, just out-of-reach. Brimming with vivid images and uncommon perspectives, this collection presents Ms. Moyer as her most true and uncompromising self.

Praise for HUSHPUPPY

From center stage, Kelly Moyer’s poetic timing is impeccable. Nothing is off-limits. Her topics throughout Hushpuppy are shockingly beautiful, at times tragically human. Her rhythm weaves everything together. Moyer whispers Hushpuppy words in our ears, each page reminding us why we adore the magic of short-form poetry.
— ROBERTA BEACH JACOBSON, editor Cold Moon and Five Fleas

Kelly Moyer’s bold, inventive approach to micropoetics, which has been wholeheartedly endorsed by our language’s most august authorities, has graced the pages of the world’s many prestigious print and online journals. Indeed, her contributions have become a deeply-admired staple of cutting-edge innovation, regularly demonstrating for the admiring student and seasoned expert what may be accomplished deftly and economically in one to three lines of striking verse. I encourage you, as she famously dared Haiku North America pilgrims one night from a moonshadowed pool, to strip off your preconceptions, inhibitions and hang-ups and dive free and unencumbered into these glorious pieces. Let yourself splash around in them with childish glee to your heart’s content like no one’s watching. Then, drop an f-bomb because chances are you’ve been fucked over once or twice yourself.
— JEROME BERGLUND, editor Heterodox Haiku

Kelly Moyer can often be found wandering the mountains of North Carolina, where she resides with her husband and two philosopher kittens, Simone and Jean-Paul.