
ABOUT ME
Jonathan M. Kelly
My poems live at the intersection of signal and static—where memory loops, truth bends, and the human self glitches under surveillance.
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This work doesn’t offer clean resolutions. It catalogues the dissonance. It rewinds the tape. It stares directly at the burn and asks who lit the match—and why we’re still filming.
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Influences range from post-structuralists to punk prophets. From Steely Dan’s detachment to Plath’s interior detonations. From the glowing blue of an error screen to the last clear signal before the feed cuts.
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If you're looking for redemption, it might be buried in the metadata. If you're looking for meaning, bring a flashlight.
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When I’m not writing, I’m a librarian, husband, and father to two each of the following—kids, dogs, and cats—in northern New Jersey.
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I hold a Doctorate of Arts and Letters in Creative Writing from Drew University in Madison, NJ. My dissertation focused on the intersections of identity, technology, and authorship in digital poetics using the poetry of a composite/fictional poet as the focus of inquiry.