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Kay “Kro” Kroger

Kay “Kro” Kroger (@kroetry) is a full-time on-demand typewriter poet. Kro teaches creative (type)writing classes and is poet-in-residence at the WNDR Museum. They have an MA in linguistics (2016) and an MFA in creative writing (2025). Kro’s debut poetry chapbook (2024), Tales From the Abandoned Greenhouse, was published by Bottlecap Press. Their interactive poetry/essay/activity collection, Prayer Wheel (2022), was self-published with grant support from the Illinois Arts Council. Their work has appeared in Outpatient Press, The Prairie Light Review, The Thomasonian, Crook & Folly, and more.

Poetic Justice

Kay “Kro” Kroger

Someone received the wrong poem. This was very bad. It could unravel the fabric of the universe itself. We lay our scene at the burbling fountain in Lincoln Square. That June was remarkably cloudless, with the usual scream of distant cicadas. In the square, the brown cobblestones bucked up and into each other like a […]