Kevin Klein

KEVIN KLEIN {[email protected]} likes learning and writing about things, including poetry, picture books, family building, instructional design for gospel learning, math education, and bean-tobar chocolate. His greatest interest is people. Kevin studied at Brigham Young University, Utah Valley University, and Edith Cowan University before teaching high-school English for the space of a time at a Catholic school in Perth, Australia. He now lives back in Utah County, where he creates teacher training materials for the K-12 crowd and lives after the manner of happiness with a wonderful woman and two kids.

Articles

Allergies

On Mother’s Day it snows
in our backyard, the kind that grows
on cottonwoods and makes my nose
itch inside the nostrils, pinch half-closed

The Pioneer Woman, St. George

She brought her family to this god
forsaken place at His request.
She will petition until He reconsiders
and crops cover the reproach

Soft

A drive for its own sake
five o’clock on a lazy New Year’s Day,
our kids, aged two and one, coming down
from the cocktail of cousins and sugar.

A Better Country

With seedling splintered bone and seminal tears
They planted furrows of themselves to please
The God of distant rest, whose mysteries
Confirmed the city and sustained its seers.

Poetry Beyond Ritual: A Conversation with Simon Peter Eggertsen and Kevin Klein

In this episode of Dialogue Out Loud, poetry editor Terresa Wellborn hosts poets Simon Peter Eggertsen and Kevin Klein to discuss their poems “Night Prayer at Binh Duong +” and “Allergies for Janet,” featured in… Read more