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  <default_description>Collin Kelley is an award-winning poet and playwright from Atlanta. He is the author of two previous collections, Better To Travel (2003) and Slow To Burn (2006), and the spoken word album, HalfLife Crisis (2004). He is a Georgia Author of the Year Award winner and Pushcart Prize nominee. Kelley's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Atlanta Review, MiPOesis, In Posse Review, Blue Fifth Review, Terminus, New Delta Review, Chiron Review and many others.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some think political poetry is anathema to the poem. Some think political poetry is an ethical necessity.<br/><br/>Still others say all human activity is political because all writing takes place in an historical, social milieu--therefore there's no such thing as an unpolitical poem.<br/><br/>Wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33102728">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished Collin Kelley's After the Poison and loved it. I admit right off the bat that Collin is among my favorite poets. The book lived up to all of my expectations. It's a book with a social conscience, but not a stuffy, boring conscience...rather, one that twinkles. He writes about everyth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35746303">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Collin Kelley is no stranger to the political arena, especially in the blogging world. Admittedly, as much as I love politics and hate politics, I've never been one to seek out political poetry because I usually find it bludgeoning at its worst, rhetorical at its best (if you can call it that). Howe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33157822">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Collin Kelley's After The Poison will have you holding your breath until the very end. Although this is a book of poetry, it reads as if a thriller, and it's bound in the murky truths we've become accustomed to seeing the past eight years:politics,plagues and pain are all woven into a devastating ta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37376359">more...</a>]]></body>
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