KELLY EGAN
Kelly Egan writes from dream, reverie, and long drives. In addition to Millennial, she is the author of A Series of Septembers from Dancing Girl Press and co-editor of the experimental poetic anthology Laknes. Her poems can also be found in Painted Bride Quarterly, Maiden Magazine, Interim, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. Kelly has an MFA from Saint Mary’s College of CA and has participated in writing residencies in Iceland and the Peruvian Amazon. She lives in California’s Bay Area.
MILLENNIAL
MILLENNIAL is an expanding portal of non-linear time; through both dream & waking states & the archetypes that hold great resonance. This poem carries memories both learnt & experienced through the kaleidoscopic lens of the speaker, until each layer of time reveals itself to us in the present. Egan questions the very things in the contemporary world, natural & otherwise, through location as experience & time through memory & language—the very mycelium of conceptualization. Traveling the terrestrial realm through a multi-dimensional state allows the poem to evoke a grounding in reality, through the unknown of ancestors & spirit. The parallels of existence in both history & the present is deeply rooted in the blood here conjured.