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Anna Lena
@aproflection.bsky.social
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Poet/teacher/editor/printer/plant person. Smaller Songs, St Brigid Press / Ornament, UNT Press / Editor, @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social / Opinions my own; reposts ≠ endorsements
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Might Could has a cover! Designed by the lovely Philip Hoy, with artwork by Amber Cowan. Thanks to Waywiser Books—can't wait to share this book with y'all. ❤
www.waywiserbooks.org/coming-soon
The cover of a book on a background of leaves and abstract text. The text on the cover reads Might Could / Anna Lena Phillips Bell / Winner of the Twentieth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Title and author are set in an elegant serifed typeface in a very dark green. In the center of the cover is a sculpture by Amber Cowan, a stylized terrarium all of glass, including leaves, strawberries, and a small Boyd's glass fox beneath a glass dome.
November 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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I’m honored to be part of the 50th-anniversary issue of Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, including this rondelet written during azalea time & from the midst of morning sickness (Scented trash bags are an abomination whether one is already nauseated or not.) Thanks to editor @longrules.bsky.social 💚💚
A copy of the fiftieth-anniversary issue of Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review—whose cover is a grid of grayscale and faintly colored images—in a bed of pink azalea flowers and green leaves A page of a literary magazine with this poem: Rondelet of beloved things remembered amid strong aversion to numerous other things, e.g. cruciferous vegetables, the smell of food left on a burner, the smell of scented trash bags or of sausages, the need of going to work Damselflies, silverbells, raspberries, lizards’ throats. Damselflies, silverbells, every kind of flower’s smell; to lie down in cool sheets, to be lain upon by cats— damselflies, silverbells. Anna Lena Phillips Bell
July 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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THE WORLD IS NOT IN HERE.
I've made a thing, which I think is useful, and today I'm sharing it! Forces of Attention no. 1, second edition, can be ordered via Indiegogo: igg.me/at/forces-of... I have gift wrap too if you like—and will send out orders placed by this Sunday early next week. ✨
A folded paper enclosure printed with red and black text reading THE WORLD IS NOT IN HERE, forces of attention no. 1, holds two letterpress-printed strips of white paper, each of which reads "the world is not in here." An Apple laptop and an iPad are stacked on top of each other on a white cloth. Each device bears a white paper sign that reads "the world is not in here." A close up of three rolls of gift wrap in vintage patterns: pink roses on a red ground, red poinsettias on a white ground, and pastel irises and butterflies on a background of leaves The enclosure and envelope for Forces of Attention no. 1: a manila envelope stamped with a "forces of attention" logo in magenta, and a rectangular paper sheet printed with the same logo in red and white.
December 12, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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I like this holiday! Here is a small poem of mine first published in the Sewanee Review. Thanks for keeping the poems in the air in here, @tomsnarsky.bsky.social ✨
#smallpoemsunday
Against Stoicism An itch, untouched, will twitch and wail till an answering scratch unhitches hell. A tempered squeal can conjure oil. Squeak, wheel. You may as well.
October 27, 2024 at 10:15 PM