A N E X C E R P T
June
Not ever y thing can open. Look at the peas. Or the berries, red-thumbed. The roses, pale green, tight in their buds. This is a season of small things. Bees (fewer and fewer) slip under the floorboards. Fireflies fade in the night. Look at these soft spinning things, unmoored f rom themselves, made bright and mor tal.
A B O U T T H E C O L L E C T I O N
What form should the seasonal poem take during a time of seasonal instability? And what do the individual months mean and evoke in our culture now?
Created in conversation with the Kinney Center’s early modern almanacs, husbandry guides, and botanicals, this collection of original poems explores enduring themes of seasonal instability that link our current climate crisis to early modernity’s little ice age.
A B O U T T H E A R T I S T
Felicity Sheehy is a poet and early modern scholar from the Hudson Valley of New York. In 2019 and 2020, she was named one of Narrative Magazine's 30 below 30 emerging writers. In 2021, her debut chapbook Losing the Farm won first place in the Munster Literature Centre's international chapbook competition. Sheehy is a poet and a PhD candidate in Renaissance Literature at Princeton University. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The New Republic, The Southern Review, The Irish Times, The Yale Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Daily, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, P.N. Review. Her work has received an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Jane Martin Prize, and the Charlotte Wise Memorial Prize. Her work has received support from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Community of Writers, the Fine Arts Work Center, the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, Narrative Magazine, Smartish Pace, the Banff Centre, the York Poetry Prize, and the Ledbury Poetry Festival.