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Cecily Parks

Cecily Parks is the author of the poetry collections Field Folly Snow (2008) and O'Nights (2015), and editor of The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses (2016)She teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Texas State University.

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Cecily Parks

Jorie Graham’s Fast marks the fraught presence of an environmentally inclined writer whose most immediate environment, the body, confronts a foreclosed future.

Cecily Parks

Muriel Rukeyser's recently uncovered novel tells the story of a young woman coming of age—politically, sexually, intellectually—in a country at war.

Cecily Parks
The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
Cecily Parks
151 sonnets about motherhood.
Cecily Parks

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