Kindall Fredricks, poet
Kindall Fredricks is a practicing registered nurse, poet, and early-aughts trash TV enthusiast from just outside of Houston, Texas. Her debut collection of poems, I’ll Take My Body To-Go, was selected for publication by Akron University Press. Her poems and short stories have appeared in South Carolina Review, New Letters, North American Review, Boulevard, and more. When she is not working, she can be found working. Or drawing cats in various costumes with her daughter, Naomi.
I'll Take My Body To Go
from University of Akron Press
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Kindall Fredricks' debut collection, I'll Take My Body To-Go, begins by following a rattling hive of girls who came of age in the early 2000s. This is a book about girls who burn at the belly like a shot tin can. Girls who feel freshly peeled, ugly, and certain they've been cheated of something, they're just not sure of what yet. Girls who wing their eyeliner as fiercely as an oath. Girls who can "find the nape of anything" and dig their name into the bark of their world by being as loud and as defiant as possible.
With brazen reverence, Fredricks does not shy from illuminating the trauma of their lived experiences, which are a rejection of the wax-paper world of girlhood that is so often portrayed--together, they flick the ashes of amen to the dirt, shoplift cheap wine from gas stations, and hunt for any escape from the everyday violence girls are expected to endure. I'll Take My Body To-Go is about girls who listened, women who are listening still.
My Work
Selected Publications
Poetry:
"It’s Tuesday and I Guess I’m Addicted to Vicodin Now" Published in Passages North
"Give Us This Day" Published in RHINO
"Poem in Which I Take Too Much" Published in Ghost City
"Poem in Which I’m Called Unknowable Despite Near-Constant Nudity" Published in The Drift
"53 Days After Being Raped, You Go to Another Party" Published in Dialogist
"On Dropping My Own Ashes in an Arby’s Parking Lot" Published in Rust & Moth
"Progressive Boyfriend Receives Standing Ovation For Saying He Thinks You’re Hot, Too" and "Brothers" Published Passengers Journal
"They Tell Me My Three Year Old Will Break Hearts One Day" Published in Boulevard's Print Edition (Vol 39)
"Josie is Just a Translation of a Translation of a---" Published in North American Review's Print Edition (Vol 308.3)
"All Things Considered, My Dear Vygotsky (1998) Published in New Letters
"I Am Told 100 Years Ago, I Wouldn't Have Survived Childbirth" Published in the Print Edition of Sugar House Review
"Fiona The Hippo's Vomit Predicts Win for Kansas City Chiefs" Published in Print Edition of Grist (Issue 15)
"The Deer" Published in Quarterly West
"When I Announce That I am Pregnant" Published in Pacifica Literary Review
"2002 (When Ryan Dies)" Published in Coachella Review
"Mother, Mother" Published in Print Issue of Driftwood Press (Vol 4.3)
“Poem in Which I Decide to Be Okay” Published in Cosmonauts Avenue
“Woman (DOA), Hair Still Slick With Auburn Dye” Published in Jet Fuel Review
“What We Didn’t Say in July, As We Picked Blackberries From Our Teeth” Published in Nelle
“where has amelia gone where has she been” Published in Cleaver
“My High School Teacher Tells Me Men Would Line Up to Get Me Pregnant” Published in Whale Road Review
“Are You There God? It’s Me, That Bitch You Gave Lopsided Boobs and Anxiety” Published in Willow Springs
“On Debating Child Separation at Mama Juanita’s” Published in Bayou Magazine
“For Josie” Published in Academy of American Poets
“Do Not Forget” Published in Concrete Desert Review
Fiction:
“Into Each Waiting Pocket” Published in Phoebe Literature
“Black Hare” Forthcoming in South Carolina Review
Our Poetry Collection
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What We Write
01
Narrative Poems
Discover the intricate details and emotions woven into our narrative poems, each telling a unique story.
03
Haiku and Tanka
Experience the brevity and depth of emotions in our haiku and tanka poems, bringing a sense of tranquility and contemplation.
04
Sonnet Inspirations
Immerse yourself in the charm and structure of sonnet poems, each revealing a blend of tradition and innovation.
02
Free Verse Creations
Explore the world of free verse poems, where creativity flows freely and emotions are expressed without constraints.
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