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Anna Maria Hong

Anna Maria Hong is the author of Age of Glass (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2018), Fablesque (Tupelo Press, 2020), and H & G (Sidebrow Books, 2018). With Christine Hume, she coedited Traversals: A Folio on Walking, published in The Hopkins Review in 2023. A recipient of fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation, she is an associate professor at Mount Holyoke College.  Find her at https://www.annamariahong.net/.

Rural Spaces

Fall 2024

Solstice

By Anna Maria Hong

lime-green sun banks a pocket - - stars like white bites - - incisors in black sashsky - - crisped tannin hooksa collar of ice - - long meteorwhips - […]

Rural Spaces

Fall 2024

Solstice

By Anna Maria Hong

blackberry wand - - rugosavine - - ground graphite pressedto sheen - - lotus opens her eye - -blackbird births a feather- - Hangul filaments lane andblade - - the […]

Rural Spaces

Fall 2024

Sijo for the Forecast

By Anna Maria Hong

Impossible not to think symphony as the trees’ crownsdipped and swept to alarming depths in another summer galein a season of iconic extremes—too hot, too dry,too wet, fire and flood, […]