My essay on the film Teeth was just published in the “Sex” issue of Bright Wall/Dark Room. Read it here!

Happy to be participating in an off-site reading at AWP this year with a number of wonderful poets. See you in D.C!

Drift is now available for purchase directly from Gazing Grain’s website under the “books” tab on their homepage. Link here!

I was recently interviewed by one of the lovely editors of Gazing Grain Press about my forthcoming chapbook! I answer a few questions about my poems. I’ll also be reading from my manuscript at the Fall for the Book Literary Festival at the end of this month, when my chapbook will be released. You can read the interview here.

I’m very excited to announce that my chapbook Drift was selected by poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths as the winner of Gazing Grain Press’ 2016 poetry chapbook contest. Griffiths had this to say about the manuscript:

Brianna Low’s Drift is a lucid and searing exploration of the female body, pinned against the feral blood of language and myth.  Consider this exquisite meditation: “After I read this I look into the mirror/and wonder where the light goes,/if the darkness pouring into the world/is because of the blood seeping out./ The poems you find in Drift never look away from the darkening eye of the heart that insists, even in its approaching blindness, upon transformation. Low’s voice is wrenching and honest, drawing us into a psychological landscape that treads the difficult, unsettled map of desire and injury in the name of what is both sacred and mortal. Low brings a startling and original perspective to feminine figures such as Laura Ingalls and Joan of Arc. The writing is incandescent and brutal as it bears witness to the ecstatic and bleak hunt of spirituality and faith. Hunger and surrender expand through the eyes of Low’s vision. We are asked to gaze within at our own fears and desires. Low fearlessly demands, ” “Who am I to say this is not about love?/The way it guts you.”

I’m incredibly excited and thankful to the editors at Gazing Grain, as well as the contest judge Rachel Eliza Griffiths for their consideration and their kind words about my work. You can see the announcement here.

I have another reading up at WFIU’s The Poets Weave. Click the link to hear me read my poems “The Running Back is Born Again,” “Watching Little House on the Prairie,” and “Laura Describes the Long Winter.” Thanks again to Romayne Rubinas Dorsey and WFIU for having me read.

My essay “After the End of the World” was just published in the sci-fi issue of Bright Wall/Dark Room. This is an essay about Mike Cahill’s 2011 film Another Earth. BW/DR publishes beautiful personal essays on a range of films and I feel lucky to be included in this issue!

I read my poems “Laura Ingalls Describes the Fire,” “Laura Describes the World to Mary,” and “We Are Hungry” on WFIU’s “The Poet’s Weave.” Thanks to Romayne Rubinas Dorsey and WFIU for having me read. Click image for link.