Poems

Select Poems:

• 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
• Crab Orchard Review, “The Brute / Brute Heart”
• Crazyhorse, “Brute Force”
• Ninth Letter, “Elegy Without A Single Tree I Can Save” & “Elegy With Rabbits”
• Quarterly West, “Elegy With a Shit-Brown Riving Running Through It” & March Is March”
• The Rumpus, “No, I Do Not Want to Connect With You on LinkedIn”
• Vinyl, “Elegy With Feathers,” “Elegy With Lamb’s Blood Over the Door,” & “Indictment With Icarus”

Interviews:

from 2019:

• “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

from 2016:

• Interviewed by Phillip B. Williams for Vinyl Poetry & Prose 
• “Too Hurt by the Light Not to Write About It,” in conversation with BFF Katie Schmid for the Prairie Schooner blog