Drunk as a Poet on Payday

Today's guest is Anna Lena Phillips Bell, and her new book, Might Could, won the Anthony Hecht Prize from Waywiser Books. Anna Lena Phillips Bell is also the author of Ornament, winner of the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, and the chapbook Smaller Songs, from St Brigid Press. Poems appear in journals including The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Electric Literature, Orion, The Sewanee Review, 32 Poems, and Subtropics, and in anthologies including Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing within the Anthropocene and A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia. She is an associate professor in UNCW’s MFA and BFA programs in creative writing and editor of Ecotone.

Pick up a copy of Might Could here.

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Jason Gray

Jason Gray is the author of the poetry collections Radiation King and Photographing Eden. His poems and reviews have appeared in Poetry, Kenyon Review, Southern Review, Image, and elsewhere.

What is Drunk as a Poet on Payday?

Good news is sometimes hard to come by for poets, and what’s better news than a new book! Celebrate with us as Jason Gray hosts an interview podcast with poets discussing their new books. Each episode is a smart, fun look into the world of poetry, where the guests read several poems for their new work, and talk about how their books came to be, and how they write the way they do.

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