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Emily Blair

poet | appalachian | professor

SELECTED WORKS
PUBLICATIONS

FEATURED WORK

WE ARE BIRDS

from Dancing Girl Press

ritual

making prayer to any listening gods

SELECT CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS

"The best ham in Louisville's..." in Flypaper Lit

Two Poems in Hobart

"Love Poem: For a Super Blood Wolf Moon Over the Mountains and Also A Newly Built Apartment Complex in Asheville" in Impossible Archetype

"Plumbing" in Contrary Magazine

"Love Poem: For the Summer I Was 17" in Riggwelter Press

"I Was Told the Risks and Still" in Barren Magazine

Two Poems in Pidgeonholes

Five Poems in Posit: A Journal of Literature and Art

BIO

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Emily Blair is an Appalachian poet, blue-collar scholar, and university professor living in North Carolina. Originally from Fort Chiswell, Virginia, she called Blacksburg, VA, and Louisville, KY, home before settling in the Tarheel State.

Themes for her creative writing include queer identity and Appalachia.

She is currently working on a poetry manuscript about coming out in Kentucky, memory, and grief.  

Her resume can be viewed here

Bio

CONTACT

For readings and events, interviews, and editorial queries, please contact Emily by email (blair.emilyc@gmail.com)

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