This week we welcome back Kristina Marie Darling as our guest author. Kristina Marie Darling is the author of thirty books, including Look to Your Left: The Poetics of Spectacle (University of Akron Press, 2020); Je Suis L’Autre: Essays & Interrogations (C&R Press, 2017), which was named one of the “Best Books of 2017” by The Brooklyn Rail; and DARK HORSE: Poems (CR Press, 2018), which received a starred review in Publishers Weekly. Her work has been recognized with three residencies at Yaddo, where she has held both the Martha Walsh Pulver Residency for a Poet and the Howard Moss Residency in Poetry; a Fundación Valparaíso fellowship; a Hawthornden Castle Fellowship, funded by the Heinz Foundation; an artist-in-residence position at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris; three residencies at the American Academy in Rome; two grants from the Whiting Foundation; a Morris Fellowship in the Arts; and the Dan Liberthson Prize from the Academy of American Poets, among many other awards and honors. Her poems appear in The Harvard Review, Poetry International, New
American Writing, Nimrod, Passages North, The Mid-American Review, and on the Academy of
American Poets’ website, Poets.org. She has published essays in The Kenyon Review, Agni,
Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, The Iowa Review, and numerous other magazines.
Kristina serves as editor-in-chief of Tupelo Press and Tupelo Quarterly, is an opinion
columnist at The Los Angeles Review of Books, and a contributing writer at Publishers Weekly.
Welcome back, Kristina.
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