Today's poem is "Hot Horse"
from Warble
Alicia Rebecca Myers
's poetry has appeared in publications that include River Styx, Sixth Finch, Raleigh Review, and Frozen Sea. Her poem "Porcelain God" was selected by Maya C. Popa as the third place winner in the 2024 Ledbury Poetry Competition. Warble, her first full-length manuscript, was the winner of the 2024 Birdy Poetry Prize (Meadowlark Press) and was published in January 2025.
Other poems on the web by Alicia Rebecca Myers:
Two poems
"The Bush"
"First Day"
"The Turn"
"Perimenopause"
"Peruvian Inca Orchid"
Six poems
"The Most Beautiful Word"
"Cans &"
"G Day"
Alicia Rebecca Myers's Website.
About Warble:
"Warble encompasses the poetry of connection to the life force, weaving and unraveling immersions into grief and birth, presence and yearning, mother love and father loss, blossom and flight. These poems are compelling, brave, intimate, and most of all, unafraid of telling the truth. I found that once I started reading them, I couldn't stop, and I was called back to re-read many stunning dives into the tender and fierce edges of life, such as the complex compassion in 'Addling,' the daring energy in "Open Water,' and the breathless love of 'You Ask Me to Tell You the Story.' The title itself-Warble-speaks to that in-between state (as well as a bird) of being alive, trilling through each poem.
I picked this collection because of how deeply the poet wrote from what Edward Hirsch calls 'the poetry of affection,' the poetry that connect us to our innate and vulnerable humanness. This quality is so vital when it comes to working with the fragments of brokenness, despair, and horror around us to craft a life, sustain a community, and behold the living earth with wonder and courage."
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
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