Debra Allbery’s most recent collection, Fimbul-Winter (Four Way, 2010) won the Grub Street National Book Prize in poetry. She directs the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina.
Poetry
Winter 2014
‘To breathe my Blank without thee’
Still hands, the long exile of the body. Restive detritus of the mind, simple staves of an empty highway— My grandmother and I silent on her porch swing, shelling peas […]
Poetry
Summer 2012
Ledger
It is a small life. Opening again morning's louvered box, compass points of dew, mockingbird's rote sampling from the hemlock. The dogs bowing and circling, pawing the dust motes. Resolve […]
Poetry
Winter 1988
Sherwood Anderson Walks Out
‘My feet are cold, wet and heavy from long wading in a river. Now I shall go walk on dry land,’ I said . . . I went along a […]
Poetry
Winter 1988
Sentiment
This is not about me. This is about someone else, from some other winter. A boy I knew once. He was poor then, living on the outskirts of town, and […]