Beth Gulley

Beth Gulley is poet based in Kansas City who teaches writing at Johnson County Community College. Her 2018 chapbook, $!*# Hole Countries: A Find and Replace Meditation was written in response to the negative comments made by President Trump. The book attempts to restore balance to the universe by sharing positive meditations on the places Trump disparages.

Beth Gulley grew up in El Salvador in the 1980s during the civil war. At that time water the government often rationed basic services like water and electricity. Later she returned to the United States for college and work. The experience of living without basic necessities and then moving somewhere water (and health) is taken for granted informs her reflection in this series of poems.

Her poems also appear in the Bards Against Hunger Anthology, From Everywhere a Little: A Migration Anthology, the Thorny Locust, and The Gasconade Review Presents: Storm A’Comin’. Her passions include thrift store shopping, traveling, and drinking coffee.