Close Red Water
Winner of the 2022 Barrow Street Book Prize, selected by Tina Chang, and forthcoming in October 2023 from Barrow Street Press. More information to come!
Poems Available Online
From Close Red Water
“Signs,” Poetry Daily (reprinted from Fairy Tale Review’s Gold Issue)
“Mt. Athos” & “Anne Lester,” New Ohio Review (online reprint with audio)
“Self-Portrait as Water Witcher” (winner of the 2020 Graybeal-Gowen Prize for Virginia Poets), Shenandoah
“We speak of a person as a body—,” The Cincinnati Review (issue sample)
“Driving Directions,” On the Seawall
“Saltern,” Sixth Finch
From ekphrastic manuscript in progress
“High Plain,” Southeast Review (also in print)
“Votive,” The Texas Review (online reprint)
“Elegy for Oneida Creek,” The Yale Review Online Poem of the Week
Audio for “Untitled Figure 1,” “Slip,” & “Landscape with Guide,” New England Review (also in print)
“Hemispheres,” American Literary Review
“Nights of a Thousand Candles,” The Common Dispatches
“Three Children Covered Half by a Thumb” (Poem of the Week) & “Museum,” “Still Life with Mirror,” “Pretending to Be Asleep,” & “Studio 3” (finalists for the Twelfth Annual Poetry Contest), Narrative
“Cinema Egyptian,” Northwest Review (online reprint)
“Early February” & “Remarks Before Florence,” Terrain
Recent Poetry in Print
Southern Indiana Review 29.2 · South Carolina Review 55.1 · The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume IX: Virginia (Texas Review Press, 2022) · North American Review 307.3 · Denver Quarterly 56.3 · Seneca Review 52.1 · AGNI 95 · Cream City Review 45.2
Emma Aylor 