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New poem: ‘Eden in the Ozarks’

Plus some other terrific writing from the latest issue of The Argyle Literary Magazine

Earlier this month, The Argyle Literary Magazine included my poem, “Eden in the Ozarks,” as part of its “bucolia” theme.

Image from “Eden in the Ozarks,” published in *The Argyle Literary Magazine*

What the heck is bucolia, you ask? It stems from the adjective bucolic, which is from the Greek word boukolos, meaning “cowherd.”

Allison Field Bell’s expansive and intimate poetry collection, ‘All That Blue’

‘… the word blue encompasses both the mental and physical spaces we inhabit.’

There’s something beautifully expansive about multi-genre writer Allison Field Bell‘s new poetry collection, All That Blue (now available from Finishing Line Press). The title itself evokes images of expansiveness: an unending dome of blue sky above, the glimmering cobalt of the ocean, the pristine turquoise of a county pond.

Juxtaposing these visions of expansiveness, though, are raw, intimate, and up-close expressions of life in all its messiness and unpredictability–the teeming life bubbling up from beneath. The 43 free-verse poems of All That Blue, Allison’s first collection of poetry, present this juxtaposition brilliantly.