Rebecca Gayle Howell

Credit: Carey Neal Gough

from American Pergatory

"Try to See No Evil"

"Try to Hear No Evil"

"How to Be an Animal"

"A Brief Atlas for Return"

"How to Preserve"

"Grackles, to Be Sure"

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Rebecca Gayle Howell is a poet writing new myths for climate change. Her genre-bending work has received critical acclaim from outlets like Publisher’s Weekly, Poetry London (U.K.), Limelight (AUS), MINT (IND), The Kenyon Review, Gramophone (U.K.), Ms. magazine, Southern Review of Books, Asymptote (INTL), Poets & Writers, and The Los Angeles Times. Howell’s awards include the United States Artists Fellowship, two fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Pushcart Prize, the Carson McCullers Fellowship, and the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry. Her latest book is Erase Genesis, just out from Project Poëtica / Bridwell Press.