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Poems

Poems from BLACK LAKE:

New work also appears in Alaska Quarterly Review, Bennington Review, Gulf Coast, The Iowa Review, Ninth Letter, and Poetry Northwest

The Adroit Journal — “Anxiety Dreams,” “Future Fig,” & “Spring Comes to the Black Lake”

American Poetry Review — “Plant Parenthood,” “Never Parrots,” “In My Infertility Era”

Copper Nickel — “Goodbye to All That”

The Nation — “Make It New”

The Offing — “I Liked Myself Better as an Exquisite Skeleton” and “Black Lake [From love I grew a forest]”

Plume — “It’s the stage of grief where [I become a transparent eyeball]”

Poetry — “Grief Lessons”

The Poetry Review [UK] — “Black lake, black boat,” “It’s the stage of grief where [I become trapped in November],” “Poetry Makes Nothing Happen”

Redivider — “It’s the stage of grief where [I become a ghost]”

Sierra — “The Door”

Southeast Review — “It’s the stage of grief where [I become convinced by conspiracy theories”

Southern Indiana Review — “Personal Weather,” “Black Lake [To everything there is a season]”

swamp pink — “It’s the stage of grief where [I become attached to a loaf of bread]”

Waxwing — “Black Lake [The black hole was the size of a raindrop],” “Black Lake [When the rain comes],” “It’s the stage of grief where [I become pregnant again]”

West Branch — “In the Bible Belt” & “Figure 8”

Prose:

Lit Hub — “50 Ways to End a Poem”

Poems from BRUTE:

American Poets — a selection of poems from Brute, including “Four Hawks,” “Dear Ruth,” “I Have Read the Whole Moon,” “Brute Strength,” “Girl Saints,” “[Remarkable the litter of birds],” “Elegy With Sympathy,” and “Aubade With Attention to Pathos”

Bennington Review, “Elegy with Symptoms”

Blackbird,”Figure of Woman Coming out of a Wall” & “It’s Impossible to Keep White Moths”, as well as “Little Monuments,” a short craft essay about the elegy

The Rumpus, “No, I Do Not Want to Connect With You on LinkedIn”

Interviews:

“10 Questions for Emily Skaja” for Poets & Writers

In conversation with Ross Nervig for The Adroit Journal

“A Self Out of the Ashes,” in conversation with Sarah Cozort & Christine Guaragno for the Los Angeles Review of Books