Julie Poole Discusses Her New Title, "Bright Specimen‪"‬ ROPE WALKER

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Writer-in-residence for April 2021, Austin-based poet and archive-enthusiast Julie Poole balances attentive construction with more organic gestures on the page, to create an intensely authentic space through her lyric. In this episode of Rope Walker, Julie  talks with us about her first collection of poems "Bright Specimen," set to be released with Deep Vellum on May 4. She also shares with us her love of archival matter, bird watching, what she's been working on while in Corsicana. Her next book of poems, titled "Landscapes Without Us," aims to imagine nature as the focal point of life on earth.

Writer-in-residence for April 2021, Austin-based poet and archive-enthusiast Julie Poole balances attentive construction with more organic gestures on the page, to create an intensely authentic space through her lyric. In this episode of Rope Walker, Julie  talks with us about her first collection of poems "Bright Specimen," set to be released with Deep Vellum on May 4. She also shares with us her love of archival matter, bird watching, what she's been working on while in Corsicana. Her next book of poems, titled "Landscapes Without Us," aims to imagine nature as the focal point of life on earth.