Today's guest is Anna Lena Phillips Bell, and her new book, Might Could, won the Anthony Hecht Prize from Waywiser Books. Anna Lena Phillips Bell is also the author of Ornament, winner of the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, and the chapbook Smaller Songs, from St Brigid Press. Poems appear in journals including The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Electric Literature, Orion, The Sewanee Review, 32 Poems, and Subtropics, and in anthologies including Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing within the Anthropocene and A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia. She is an associate professor in UNCW’s MFA and BFA programs in creative writing and editor of Ecotone.

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