“an epoch-song to what it means to embrace and embody a scientific oneness that is gentled by love, directed by the oscillation of every living thing, and brought to bounteous life in the knowing hands of the poet.” —Shann Ray

“Kristin Emanuel has written a virtuoso love note to birds—those that inhabit earth and sky, and those that timelessly reside in our memories and imagination, but especially those that were once living matter but are no more.” —Mary Jo Bang

Abstract: Contemporary Expressions

5 Poems

Punk Eek – 2026

5 Poems

Read the accompanying interview

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Lake Effect – 2026

Love Elegy for Two Carolina Parakeets

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Terrain.org – 2026

After the Hereafter

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Poetry Northwest – 2026

Delicacy

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Raleigh Review – 2025

in which three mice invite me to teatime or oblivion

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Strange Hymnal – 2025

Excerpt from The Loch Ness Monster is a Widowed Time Traveler

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I-70 Review – 2024

Nostalgic for the Ghosts We’ve Become

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RHINO – 2024

masterpiece of ache

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Ecotone – Labor Issue 2024

Featured poem for the 2024 Bradford-Niedermann Broadside Series

Six Maxims for the Sixth Mass Extinction

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Hunger Mountain – 2024

Excerpt from The Loch Ness Monster is a Widowed Time Traveler

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The Pinch – 2023

in the flesh again

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Boston Review – 2023

Finalist for the 2022 Boston Review Annual Poetry Contest

footage of Benjamin, the last living Tasmanian tiger – 1935 colorized

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Hole in the Head Review – November 2022

the amnesiac’s rhapsody

Just a Small Apocalypse

Flood Song for the 21st Century

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The Rupture – December 2021

the birds left last autumn

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Grub Street – 2021

Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) Gold Circle Award – Open (Free) Form Poetry

canticle of metal

lost softnesses

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The Normal School – 2019

how to share dreams

Birdwatching in the 4th Dimension

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