Donika Kelly reads “In the Chapel of St. Mary’s,” “Portrait of My Father as a Winged Boar,” and “The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings.” from her poetry collection The Renunciations, published in May 2021 by Graywolf Press.
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