Carolyn Hembree (Of Long Poems, Inger Christensen's Alphabet, and Writing Disaster)

Read: Carolyn Hembree's poem April 2020

Purchase: For Today (LSU Press, 2024)

Carolyn Hembree's third poetry collection, For Today, is forthcoming from LSU Press. She is also the author of Skinny and Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague, winner of the Trio Award and the Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award. Her poems appear in Beloit Poetry Journal, Copper Nickel, Poetry Daily, The Southern Review, and other publications. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of New Orleans and serves as the poetry editor of Bayou Magazine. 

Recommended Reading:

Jennifer Shaw's visual art series Flood State

Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter (novella on the 1918 flu pandemic)

Inger Christensen's alphabet, translated Susanna Nied

Spring and All (facsimile edition with introduction by C.D. Wright) by William Carlos Williams

[By the road to the contagious hospital] by William Carlos Williams

Don't Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia Rankine

"An Anatomy of the Long Poem" by Rachel Zucker