Our Scarlet Blue Wounds

Emmett Wheatfall shows us how the roots of love grow deep in the soil of sacrifice. He illustrates the intensely complex relationship between idealism and realism. His poems hurt in just the right way. And it's no small feat opening one's own racial and cultural wounds for the world to see. It takes courage. It takes trust that a country will recognize itself, and its complicity, in those wounds. And Wheatfall trusts us to witness along with him. He proves himself ready and willing, even eager, to, as the titular poem in this collection demands, "build a new world" together. -John Sibley Williams, from the Foreword

Author: Emmett Wheatfall
Publisher: Fernwood Press
Published: 11/30/2019
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.27d
ISBN: 9781594980640

About the Author
Wheatfall, Emmett: - Emmett Wheatfall lives in Portland, Oregon, where he reads, writes, and performs poetry. Emmett has published six poetry collections and four recordings, including As Clean as a Bone (2018), Fragments (2015), Bread Widow (2013), The Meaning of Me (2012), We Think We Know (2011), and He Sees Things (2010). He served in 2014 and 2016 on the nomination committee for the selection of Oregon's Poet Laureate.Williams, John Sibley: - John Sibley Williams is the author of As One Fire Consumes Another (Orison Poetry Prize, 2019), Skin Memory (Backwaters Prize, University of Nebraska Press, 2019), Summon (JuxtaProse Chapbook Prize, 2019), Disinheritance, and Controlled Hallucinations. He has also served as editor of two Northwest poetry anthologies, Alive at the Center (Ooligan Press, 2013) and Motionless from the Iron Bridge (barebones books, 2013). A nineteen-time Pushcart nominee, John is the winner of numerous awards, including the Laux/Millar Prize, Wabash Prize, Philip Booth Award, Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize, American Literary Review Poetry Contest, Phyllis Smart-Young Prize, The 46er Prize, Nancy D. Hargrove Editors' Prize, Confrontation Poetry Prize, and Vallum Award for Poetry. He serves as editor of The Inflectionist Review and works as a freelance poetry editor, writing coach, and literary agent. Previous publishing credits include: Yale Review, Midwest Quarterly, Southern Review, Colorado Review, Sycamore Review, Prairie Schooner, Massachusetts Review, Poet Lore, Saranac Review, Atlanta Review, TriQuarterly, Columbia Poetry Review, Mid-American Review, Poetry Northwest, Third Coast, and various anthologies. John holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Rivier University and an MA in Book Publishing from Portland State University. He teaches poetry for Literary Arts as part of their Writers in the Schools program and for The People's Colloquium. He is currently constructing a digital poetry workshop platform, Caesura Poetry Workshop. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his partner and boisterous twin toddlers, Kaiya and Gabriel.