In this week's installment of Poetry and Playlists Alicia Wright's weighty visceral lines pair with the sounds of Summer losing and longing, "the river of sound the kingdom called we both heard bells."
Alicia Wright
Alicia Wright is originally from Rome, Georgia, and has received fellowships from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Ecotone, West Branch, The Literary Review, Poetry Northwest, Flag + Void, and The Southeast Review, among others. At present, she is working towards a PhD in Literary Arts at the University of Denver, where she serves as Conversations Editor for Denver Quarterly.