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Kay Marlow Allen

I'm a game designer, poet, & publisher based in Massachusetts. My work creates spaces for resting, reflecting, & connecting, and makes room for the queer, strange, & mysterious. I founded Sword & Kettle Press & edit our journal Corvid Queen.
Boston, MA, United States

Chapbooks

Selected work (2 publications)

Canned Magazine
walk-ins welcomeevery morning when i walk down the beach the old fishermen stand stoic on the shoreline, pulling up jellyfish after jellyfish. i want to pull & pull on my heart line and see who i hook, what kinds of scaled & toothy lovers answer my call.
Stone of Madness
autumn dream with pouring rainme & you are in this graveyard, & every headstone is a curio cabinet. there’s no order to their arrangement: just weathered wooden boxes embedded in the hillside, displaying little tchotchkes all the dead people owned.