Hannah/Hans Kesling (they), is a poet living in Portland, Oregon. Hans is pronounced like hands. Call them either Hannah or Hans, but not both at once.
Poetry
Forthcoming
"How I Will Rename You." Antler Velvet.
"If only you would give your mineral self away." Pine Hills Review.
Two poems. Unlikely Stories.
Two poems. SHIFT: A Publication of MTSU Write.
Published
Three poems. Troublemaker Firestarter, Volume 777. Sep 2024.
"What happens." Public School Poetry, Issue 3. Sep 2024.
"What will you do." new words {press}, Issue 4. Sep 2024.
"I am sitting in my childhood bedroom watching a stellar jay preen on the lowest branch of the apple tree I planted on Arbor Day in kindergarten." Alphanumeric and Nonbinary Review from Zoetic Press, Issue #37: False Memories. Aug 2024.
Three poems. The Elevation Review, Issue 7: National Poetry Month. Apr 2022.
"Daddy, When You Die." About Place Journal, Volume VII, Issue I: Navigations: A Place for Peace. Apr 2022.
"The story your mother told while she pulled cactus spines from your forearm." the Same (now defunct), Issue 7.1. Mar 2018.
"Grandma's living room of false gods." Arkana Magazine, Issue 3. Dec 2017.
"Halos." Gobshite Quarterly, Issue 22: Double Trouble. 2016.
Two poems. Oregon Poetic Voices. 2013.
"I don't hide everything from you (for my sister)." t(our) magazine (now defunct), Going Back. Oct 2012.
Prose
"What is This Place?: Musings on the Poet/Reader Relationship, and the Poems, 'River Otters are Monogamous,' 'Into the Arms of Josephine,' and 'Metalmouth.'" Public School Poetry, Issue #3. Sep 2024.
"Microreview: David B. Goldstein's Object Permanence." Indiana Review. 2018.
Audio
Hosted "Canese Jarboe With Anni Liu." Blue Room a podcast from Indiana Review, Episode 4. May 2018.
Hosted "'Cunt' By Siân Griffiths." Blue Room, a podcast from Indiana Review, Episode 3. Mar 2018.
Hosted "'In the Skin' by Katie Flynn." Blue Room, a podcast from Indiana Review, Episode 2. Feb 2018.
Hosted "What Are You Afraid Of." Blue Room, a podcast from Indiana Review, Episode 1. Jan 2018.
"Talking Earth with Claire Askew, Seth Blum, Hannah Jeanne Thompson and Mariah Talicuran." Talking Earth from KBOO. 2015.