Author: Anna Lena Phillips Bell
Anna Lena Phillips Bell’s poems have appeared in the Southern Review, 32 Poems, and Poetry International. The recipient of an NC Arts Council Fellowship, she teaches at UNC Wilmington and is editor of Ecotone. She lives with her family near the Cape Fear River.
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Works Published by UNT Press
Ornament
— Vol. 24: of Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry
Published: April, 2017 Pages: 84
In this debut collection, Anna Lena Phillips Bell explores the foothills of the Eastern U.S., and the old-time Appalachian tunes and Piedmont blues she was raised to love. With formal dexterity—in ballads and sonnets, Sapphics and amphibrachs—the poems in Ornament traverse the permeable boundary between the body and the natural world. more... about Ornament
- Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry in Poetry 2016
- North Carolina Poetry Society's Brockman-Campbell Book Award Honorable Mention