kelly mullins
professional menace / amateur poet
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🦠 poetic experiments
what happens when we do the opposite of what algorithms do, and consent to sharing our most private, online moments in a public space? what if these digital snippets become the “source material” for an algorithm that does not exist on the internet, but in the intimacy of one room?
source.txt is an interactive poetry installation. it started as an interrogation of Kelly's own poetic practice, and continues as an antagonization of the algorithm itself.
what happens when two online friends take the “FORWARD THIS MESSAGE OR DIE IN 7 DAYS” chain from 2002 a little too seriously and embark on a never-ending game of poetry ping-pong?
this digital portal holds your schoolwork, lip gloss, secret notes, shiny stickers and of course, poems. Poetry Trapper Keeper is a cross-continental experiment in poetry as a conduit for community-building. Kelly was a co-founder and editor from 2021-2024.
💣 bio
Kelly Mullins (they/she) is a poet and worker organizer whose texts sit at the intersection of their dreams and the digital plane. They are mostly interested in poetry as a conduit for community building, a medium for institutional interrogation, and a portal to snippets of everyday utopia.
They are the former editor of Poetry Trapper Keeper, the creator of source.txt (an internationally toured poetry installation antagonizing the algorithm) and have been published in places like SAND, Streetcake, and Poetry Ireland.
🫠 published work
🫠 published work
is an em dash [-] proof of ai manipulation?, MEMEZINE, Sept 2026
here, taste this, Protean, Sept 2023
Everything Else Has Edges, Rise Up Review, 2023
I Only Get My News from Poetry, Poetry Ireland, Issue 136, 2022
Field Elm, Selcouth Station, Dec 2021
The most interesting thing about me can't be my, Selcouth Station, Dec 2021
Welcome to my crib!, Streetcake Magazine, Nov 2021
Functions of Dramatic People, SAND, Issue 23, Nov 2021
Washing dishes is a chore but we cannot just stop eating, Shock of the Femme, Sept 2021
Stop. Even Meghan Markle Wants Us to Unionize, Shock of the Femme, Sept 2021
My Therapist Told Me to Write a Letter to my Burnt-Out Self, Shock of the Femme, Sept 2021
I'm not lazy I just don't want to work anymore, Pine Hills Review, July 2021
Executive from Europe's Most Diverse & Inclusive Company of 2019 Retweets, The Broadkill Review, July 2021
Team Standup, The Broadkill Review, July 2021
You're Preaching to the Chaos, Anti-Heroin Chic, April 2021
Instructions for Thirst Trapping, Anti-Heroin Chic, April 2021
Quarantine Escapes, Hash Journal, October 2020
Quarantine Walks, Maudlin House, July 2020
New York Forever, In Parentheses, December 2019
Behavior, Impact Options, In Parentheses, December 2019
Pop Astrology, In Parentheses, December 2019
😱 exhibitions, events, etc.
😱 exhibitions, events, etc.
"In the Process of Making" Exhibition at Treehouse NDSM Amsterdam, from March 16th - April 9th, 2023. Showing source.txt interactive poetry installation.
Disquiet, Literary Program Participant, Summer 2023
Greywood Arts, Writer in Residence, September 2023. Showing source.txt interactive poetry installation.
International Literature Festival Dublin, Poetic Performance & Workshop, May 2024. Showing source.txt interactive poetry installation.
QUEERHOUSE, Treehouse NDSM, July 15-17th, 2024. Poetry Trapper Keeper's three-day artistic occupation, creative recharging station, and community-building hub for Queer Pride Amsterdam.
Ecology of Poetry, Workshop Series with Jamie Rhiannon Fehribach, 2024 - Present. Follow us for updates!
Sweat it Out, A Queer Sauna & Poetry Night at Badhus Amsterdam, April 2025. Hosted in collaboration with Britt Daize, Soph Kay, and Luke Worthy.
Lesbian Home, Guest Poetry Workshop Facilitation in collaboration with Dopplepunkt Collective, February 2026.
🔭 contact
call me beep me if you wanna reach me
💌 mullins.kr@gmail.com
actually, please don't call me!! but I'm generally down for artist collaborations, labor uprisings, etc. that either interrogate existing institutions (in trojan-horse-like ways) or build alternatives to them. so, don't be a stranger.
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