James Kelly Quigley

James Kelly Quigley is the author of Aloneness, a strictly samizdat chapbook hand-bound in Brooklyn by Umpteen Triangles. Named among the "30 Below 30" list by Narrative Magazine, James has won the Phyllis Smart-Young Prize in Poetry and been recognized with several Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets nominations. His manuscript Bath; or, My Dynamic Attitude Toward What Is Erroneously Called the Afterlife was a finalist for the Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes in Poetry (2022), as well as a semi-finalist for the Marystina Santiestevan First Book Prize (2022). Recent work has been published or is forthcoming in The Southern Review, American Chordata, The Los Angeles Review, Electric Literature, Denver Quarterly, Ninth Letter, and other places. He received both a BA and an MFA from New York University, where he taught undergraduate creative writing and was an editor of Washington Square Review. James lives in Brooklyn and works as a freelance writer.

Devotion

dear Satan we missed you at the picnic Ben sends his love he’s been microdosingcatatonia he says he’s getting betterat dinner for one laughter for one fishing bits of cork out of the Tempranillo for one and I hate to be mundane but the green was just so green today  Taylor wore that bolo  with the pink epoxy star my heart was a garden variety abyss I could’ve watched her eat deluxe bacon cheeseburgers all afternoon musing about the exact year  it became cool to shave your bush   she found a baby bird  dead as fuckyou don’t happen to deal with birds too?  I told her it’s morning somewhere and very hard the grass pointed upward  in a light light rain we packed like monksbits of string were scotch-taped to the skydo you see that bus I said to Ben that’s the one you get on

James Kelly Quigley

Devotion

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