Rose McLarney’s collections of poetry are Colorfast, Forage, and Its Day Being Gone (Penguin, 2024, 2019, 2014) as well as The Always Broken Plates of Mountains (Four Way Books, 2012). She is coeditor of A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia (University of Georgia Press, 2019) and the journal Southern Humanities Review. McLarney works as professor of creative writing at Auburn University.
Rural Spaces
Fall 2024
River, from Origin to Mouth
An overture is played at the beginning of a ballet to establish the themes. The sound where I began was the river’s, its going over stones.Its roar was the orchestra […]
Nature's Nature
May/June 2017
Little Monster, Masterpiece
In the sun, I scorch, dizzy. It’s a danger day—the new phrase for when being outdoorscan burn you dead. And imagine: She’ll have her fathers golden, resilient skin (but my […]
Nature's Nature
May/June 2017
And Still I Want to Bring Life into This World
Aquifers are so depleted it would take a great flood to replenish them, says the radio broadcast. I am driving from a doctors appointment, imagining the millions of us, our […]
Nature's Nature
May/June 2017
After the Removal of 30 Types of Plants and Animals from the “Junior Dictionary”
Almond no more. Blackberry blanked out. Cheetah cast off. But if no acorn, because the young will use language for nature less, by that logic, no arousal, brief surge of […]
Rose McLarney
Rose McLarney has published two collections of poems, Its Day Being Gone (Penguin Books)—winner of the National Poetry Series—and The Always Broken Plates of Mountains (Four Way Books). She is […]