e·pon·y·mous | "Black Bell" by Alison C. Rollins

Talking with Alison C. Rollins about Black Bell, the poetics of referentiality, and performance as mode of collective meaning-makingAlison C. Rollins is the author of the poetry collections Black Bell and Library of Small Catastrophes. Rollins holds an MFA from Brown University and is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was awarded a 2023-2024 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship and named a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in 2019. Her work, across genres, has appeared in American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. Get full access to O, Word? at oword.deesoulpoetry.com/subscribe