Anna Maria Hong
Anna Maria Hong is the author of Age of Glass, winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s First Book Poetry Competition, the novella H & G, winner of the A Room of Her Own Foundation’s Clarissa Dalloway Book Prize, and Fablesque, winner of Tupelo Press’s Berkshire Prize. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Colorado Review, The Common, Plume, Ecotone, the Hopkins Review, Smartish Pace, Poetry Daily, The Best American Poetry, and other publications. She is an assistant professor at Mount Holyoke College.
Reading List
Dispellations: Curated Ephemera
Take it wide and take it within: Praise every break in the din: Praise the sea bean on my mantle, smooth emblem of personal disaster. Praise the stones from other coasts: granite, marble, white & sand. Praise the candleholder cut from the drupe of gray-plum fruit. Praise the loops of the unknown hand. Praise the […]
Dispellations: Reverb
& they said, let there be sound: a brush of breeze to brisk the spirit trees a burr in the lattice of the lyricist’s utter a snort of laughter ever after the scent of ice lacing under foot let there be a tree of ruby fruit let the asp be the ambassador of touch the […]
Dispellations: A Prayer
Let dispersal reverse pull the core of the core in cinch the belly of the lord’s curse pop it with a coiled pin rehearse for worse and worst release the burn of bitumen release the manikin boil shepherd’s purse to voile blanch belladonna to baste the liver’s hoar turn the sun’s dial butter both sides […]
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“A Little Bit Blown Apart”: On Dispellations
Anna Maria Hong discusses fairytales, form, and her history with writing and poetry.