Chelsea Harlan
Chelsea Harlan is the author of Bright Shade, selected by Jericho Brown as the winner of the 2022 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize. She holds a BA from Bennington College and an MFA from Brooklyn College, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow. She lives in rural Appalachian Virginia, where she was born and raised, and where she works at a small public library.
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When Foamhenge Was Still Where It Was
Its purpose was to educate and entertain the sign said on a foam stone at Foamhenge where I enjoyed taking off all my clothes while the weathered wizard watched while the dandelions yellowly matured while the Aral Sea still held some water and there were two spelling bee winners for the words stichomythia and feuilleton. […]
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Chelsea Harlan Reads “When Foamhenge Was Still Where It Was”
Chelsea Harlan, author of “When Foamhenge Was Still Where It Was” from Volume 72.2, reads her poem out loud.