Awards

The Esther Unger Poetry Prize
America
for Langston Hughes

The David Dortort Prize in Creative Writing (Non-Fiction)
Little Girls, What Has Ruined You?

 Published Work
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Finishing line Press
Diary of an Intercessor

America (The Jesuit Review of Faith and Culture)
Daughter Hymn

(RE) An Ideas Journal
Reimagine

433
Beyond the Window after Salvador Dali's Figure at Window 
&
Watching You Sleep

Lily Poetry Review Books
​Cry Sweat Bleed 

​Pithead Chapel  
Truth

Rattlecast  
We Are Loners
(for my brother)

K’in   
Magic (for Cynthia Cruz)

Lily Poetry Review  
Hoodie Regrets (for Trayvon Martin)
&
​Waiting for the Morning

The Ekphrastic Review  
Dear Frida (for Frida Kahlo's Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird)

Rascal   
Wait (for Us)

The Free Library of the Internet Void  
And  &  Maybe

PRONG & POSY  
Privacy

​The Write Launch  
Untitled #5,
We Are Loners,
​& For Kalief

The Voices Project 
Constructing a Dream (An Ode for Zaire)

Mothers Always Write   
Before You Were My Child (for Micah)

Moko Caribbean Arts and Letters  
Black or Brown, Sisters (for Melissa) & Harlem

Brown Molasses Sunday: An Anthology of Black Women Writers
Girl in Burgundy Dress & Father

The American Aesthetic  
​My Daddy Sings


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 Interviews

​Wombwell Rainbow Interviews Kay Bell & Cry Sweat Bleed Write
Read Here
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Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Kay Bell
Listen Here

Oye Drum:
​An Interview with Kay Bell: A discussion on faith, form, family and her new book Diary of an Intercessor
Read Here