BESS COOLEY
POEMS
"There's this never-ending rain now, never-ending" in Arkansas International
"Rock Climbing," "Forgiveness," and "I Worry about My Future Nephew" in Adanna Literary Journal
"On the Day My Parents Leave the Country They Leave Instructions for What to Do after Their Deaths" in Western Humanities Review
"The Day My Parents Accept an Offer on My Childhood Home" in American Literary Review
"Eight Years Old and My Grandfather Says My Name Angry" and "My Mother Asks for Advice about What to Do with Her Father's Ashes" in Stirring: A Literary Collective
"The Other Side" and "Witch Court Reporter" in PRISM International
"There Is a Snake" reprinted in Verse Daily
"An Archaeologist Shows Us a Skull" in Midway Journal
"Dear Love Poem, Dear Memory" in Ruminate
"There Is a Snake" and "Women Dying" in Iron Horse Literary Review
"Corkscrew" in Atticus Review
"Melrose Abbey, c. 1100" in Columbia Poetry Review
"New Medicine," "Florence," "The Furniture Room," and "Routine" in Prairie Schooner
"Hemoglobin" in Breakwater Review​
"On the Chicago River" in Mississippi Review, 45.1&2 (winner of the 2017 Mississippi Review Poetry Prize)
"Meditation" & "I've Had this Rhythm in My Head for Decades" in Forklift, Ohio
"Poem Written While Writing Another Poem" & "Poem Starting with a Violin and Ending with the Hoan Bridge" in Toad, 5.3
"Genesis" in Spry
"Prose Poem" in Mason's Road
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INTERVIEWS
Interview with Anna Lea Jancewicz in Spry
Interview with Christopher Grillo in Spry
Interview with Richard Siken in Sycamore Review
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BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Andrés Cerpa's Bicycle in a Ransacked City: An Elegy in Southern Humanities Review
Review of Anna Rose Welch's We, the Almighty Fires in Kenyon Review Online
Review of Claudia Cortese's Wasp Queen in Electric Literature
Review of Fanny Howe's The Needle's Eye in Electric Literature
Review of Ben Lerner's The Hatred of Poetry in Sycamore Review
Review of Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts in Sycamore Review
Review of Jamaal May's The Big Book of Exit Strategies in Sycamore Review
Review of Sjohnna McCray's Rapture in Sycamore Review