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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Emma Bolden is the author of three full-length collections of poetry — House Is An Enigma (forthcoming from Southeast Missouri State University Press), medi(t)ations (Noctuary Press, 2016) and Maleficae (GenPop Books, 2013) — and four chapbooks. The recipient of a 2017 Creative Writing Fellowship from the NEA, her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, The Best Small Fictions, and such journals as the Mississippi Review, The Rumpus, StoryQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, New Madrid, TriQuarterly, the Indiana Review, Shenandoah, the Greensboro Review, and The Journal. She currently serves as Associate Editor-in-Chief for Tupelo Quarterly.
Arlington
“Arlington is a venue where traditions from around the world can freely harmonize with golden days of past elegance. We are the last Antebellum home in Birmingham and would provide a unique backdrop to such a special occasion.”
— from the Weddings page on the Arlington Home and
Gardens Website
In Birmingham, a confederation of columns still stands
to up and damn them Yankees for escaping with their spines
straight as a ledger lining up what’s owed. Now weddings flower
in that stately home in which white haunted. In which white
hunted. In which lived a history made by hands the same pale
as ours. Even the mulberry trees hang their head, abloomed
with blood. These ground are a grave dug by hate’s hands.
The bride holds her white blossoms. The groomsmen dance.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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