Cecily Parks is the author of the chapbook Cold Work (Poetry Society of America, 2005) and the collection Field Folly Snow (University of Georgia Press, 2008), which was a finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award and the Glasgow / Shenandoah Emerging Writers Prize. In 2011 she earned a PhD in English from the CUNY Graduate Center, where she wrote a dissertation on American women writers and swamps. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Poetry
Fall 2012
When I Was Thoreau at Night
I covered my head so as to better hide from men and see the moon, with whom I carried on a conversation that illuminated like lantern-swing, iterating and reiterating trees. […]
Poetry
Fall 2012
Dancing with the Doctor
If I when you are sleeping and the landlady downstairs her ashy dog are sleeping and the train that brought me home is a wolf-black breath panting back into coarse […]
Poetry
Fall 2012
Hurricane Song
The pines dizzying for a hurricane, the wind so hotly twirls their skirts and underskirts, unnerves their pinecones, ratchets up and up their branches into needle-spangled, needle-spraying plumes. The white […]
Cecily Parks
Cecily Parks is the author of the chapbook Cold Work (Poetry Society of America, 2005) and the collection Field Folly Snow (University of Georgia Press, 2008), which was a finalist […]