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Farewell National Poetry Month

April 2022

By UNC Asheville

May 4^th, 2022

National Poetry Month wrapped up in April, but we're always eager to lose ourselves in a good poem. Enjoy the spring season while reading poetry from our very own English faculty and staff poem publications.

Rachel Hanson

Visiting Assistant Professor of English Rachel Hanson explores an array of topics in her writing across the human and natural worlds. Her publications go beyond poetry, she also writes prose and anthologies.

Her poems include:

“Hunger Fishing,” Juked, Spring 2017:

“...He bit down only once before swallowing

sweetness. It hurt like sickness, like cherries candied slick

toward ill, to see my big brother stealing bait for food

he’d set to catch so he might eat closer to full…” (excerpt)

“Left in the Ground,” The Minnesota Review, Fall 2016

“Bound,” New Madrid: Journal of Contemporary Literature, Summer 2015

“Crossing One of Those Places Where Utah Meets Wyoming” and “A Talus Slope,” Corium Magazine, Spring 2014

For more information about her writings please click here to see her website. Click here to see her professor details and the courses she teaches at UNC Asheville.

Evan Gurney

Associate Professor of English Evan Gurney's publications include but are not limited to poems, scholarly articles and essays, and a book.

His recent poems include:

"The Hoe" and "Hail Mary," Rat's Ass Review (Summer 2020).

"Love IV" Saint Katherine Review 7.1 (2019): 70.

"Whiskey" and "Weeding." Appalachian Heritage 46.1 (2018): 88-89.

"This is Your Head." Broad River Review 49.1 (2017): 90.

"Ablaze." Still: The Journal 23 (Winter 2017).

“…and up ahead you see the stacks

of Blue Ridge Paper belching golden steam,

the sky glows, the river glows, and when the peaks

that rise up behind are lit with sundown,

it looks like the mill the town the mountains

and the whole world is on fire.” (excerpt)

"All This Love." Dappled Things 11.2 (2016): 61.

"Our Hands Go Separate Ways" and "Reading with My Son." Angle 8 (2016): 44-45

For more information about his works and professor details please visit this website.

Mildred Barya

Assistant Professor of English Mildred Barya has a wide collection of publications, including creative nonfiction, poems, poetry books, short stories, and essays.

Poems

Extract of “How to Live in a Desert: A Manual” print exhibit at the conference: “Imagining Justice"presented by the National Women's Studies Association 2018 Visual and Literary Arts, November 8th-11th at the Hilton, Atlanta.

“Liberated” poem, In Times Like These Art and Politics Exhibit at Pink Dog Creative, May, 2019

“Black and Maroon/Stag Beetles” poem in A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, University of Georgia Press, 2019.

“The fire people” reprinted on poets.org, Academy of American Poets, 2018

“We’ve turned our walks into finding things

that catch fire easily, like us

our fascination with bush craft—

how to survive in a forest

without the conveniences

we have at home

the first human to discover fire

rubbed two stones together

friction is a good thing…” (excerpt)

“The heart, the heart, the hunger” published in Lady/Liberty/Lit June, 2018

“This Too is Home” and “The Blood Bath” two poems published in Fire on the Mountain Anthology, Dovesong Educational Publishers Ltd, Kampala, 2018

“The City of Antelope” and “Piano Lessons” in Capitals: Poetry Anthology on Capital Cities of the World, ed. Abhay K, 2017

“Ergonomics” in Truck, 2016

“Ode to the Sheep” Prairie Schooner, 2016

“The fire people” Poetry Quarterly, 2015

“Seen City” and “Unseen City” in Kampala Poetry Anthology, BN Publication, 2015

“October” “Going Home” and “The Sink” in Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, Jane Plastow, Vol 14, (2014) School of English, University of Leeds, p90-91.

“Stormy Heart” in A Thousand Voices Rising: An Anthology of Contemporary African

Poetry, ed. Beverley N Nsengiyunva, Gilgal Media Arts, Kampala, (2014) p13-14.

“Resolution” in Feminist Challenges in the Information Age, ed. Christiane Floyd, et al. Leske + Budrich, Opladen, 2002

Poetry Books

Editor, Kampala Poetry Anthology: Boda Boda Anthem & Other Poems, Babishai Niwe, 2015

Give Me Room to Move My Feet, Amalion Publishing, Dakar, Senegal, 2009

The Price of Memory After the Tsunami, Mallory International Ltd, UK, 2006

Men Love Chocolates But They Don’t Say, New Vision, Uganda, 2002

For more information about her writings please click here to see her website. Click here to see her professor details and the courses she teaches here.

Emily Wilson

Emily Wilson, assistant director of annual giving, publishes her debut poetry collection Jalubí on May 24, 2022, from Unsolicited Press. This collection explores the city of Prague, language theory, and the speaker's Czech ancestry. Individually published poems can be found here , here, and here.