Kailey Tedesco is the author of She Used to be on a Milk Carton (April Gloaming Publishing), Lizzie, Speak (winner of White Stag Publishing’s 2018 MS Contest), and the forthcoming collection FOREVERHAUS (White Stag Publishing). She is a senior editor for Luna Luna Magazine. You can find her work featured in Electric Literature, Black Warrior […]
Kailey Tedesco
Kailey Tedesco: bloody mary x 3
there goes my top skull jack-in-the-boxing from your suzy-talks-a-lot eyelids. maybe i’ve been dead a long time. maybe i’ve been dead never ever. live with me forever in the medicine cabinet where my limbs smoke ring doll-wards through your own reflection. spinning my head all the way around is what i do for a […]
Kailey Tedesco: inside the beheaded apartment
the sky whispers something eggsome then breaks its rain, thick & frozen. i crave the cigarettes i’ve never smoked; not marlboro. i picture you before the time everything could kill you, glamour in your beehive & twiggy dress, smoke haloing the mini-chandeliers. i beckon for you to gemstone through me, egyptology — my lipstick […]
Kailey Tedesco: no. 7 adulthood
after Hilma af Klint you’ll remember me as a zygote scrambling towards cronehood on its haunches; i grow bloomwards. my teeth outstretched on the front lawn during the violet hour, spelling spells disguised as poems. hermit to hermit; we kiss to form a single nautilus, sistering divinity. tell me when was it you […]
Episode 89: Bloomwards & Eggsome
What’s your background, Slushies? Sounds like a loaded question, right? But it’s really a reference to your choice of green-screen background Zoomery. This episode opens with a larking conversation about our current delight in Zoom’s capacity to allow us to upload virtual backgrounds for our physical spaces. (The discussion of poems starts at 8:01 if […]