Description: "I'll tell you the story," the opening poem of MY SEABORGIUM coos, "of how / I rolled around in a mail truck full of other / people's letters, I was that happy / to be your mother." Written by a Best New Poet of 2015, MY SEABORGIUM travels toward motherhood from before, during, and after the experiences of pregnancy and birth.
Brief description: Alicia Rebecca Myers is a poet and essayist whose work has appeared recently or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, The American Literary Review, Gulf Coast, jubilat, The Carolina Quarterly, The Fairy Tale Review, and Day One. In 2014, she was awarded a residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center in Nebraska City. A graduate of NYU's MFA Program, she currently teaches at Wells College. You can find her online at aliciarebeccamyers.com.
Review Quotes: "The poems of My Seaborgium utilize metaphor in an attempt to account for the beauty that emerges from our moments of greatest grief. . . . Even through the pain, Myers's speaker struggles to pay attention, to unfold that pain in ways that feel particular and personal." --Kiki Petrosino, author of Hymn for the Black Terrific