Rusty Morrison’s Beyond the Chainlink (Ahsahta) was published in January 2014. After Urgency won Tupelo’s Dorset Prize, the true keeps calm biding its story won the Academy of American Poet’s James Laughlin Award, the Northern California Book Award, Ahsahta’s Sawtooth Prize and the Di Castagnola Award from Poetry Society of America. Her first book, Whethering, won the Colorado Prize for Poetry. Her poems are anthologized in Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (second edition), The Arcadia Project: Postmodern Pastoral, Beauty Is a Verb, and elsewhere. She is copublisher of Omnidawn.
Nature's Nature: A Gathering of Poetry
May/June 2015
Escape Fable
… place, where violence is rife, at the boundary of that which escapes cohesion … —Georges Bataille Groundwater seepage forms these silty pools. But to make an image there must […]
Nonfiction
Spring 2012
‘She Encouraged the Separation’—Poetry and Gravity
1. A word can change everything. 2. “Secrete us in reality” says Wallace Stevens—a line I can’t forget reading for the first time. I still hear the verb as a […]
Rusty Morrison
Rusty Morrison’s Beyond the Chainlink (Ahsahta) was published in January 2014. After Urgency won Tupelo’s Dorset Prize, the true keeps calm biding its story won the Academy of American Poet’s […]
Rusty Morrison
Rusty Morrison’s After Urgency won Tupelo’s Dorset Prize; the true keeps calm biding its story won Academy of American Poet’s James Laughlin Award and Ahsahta’s Sawtooth Prize. Whethering won the […]