Poet and journalist, Natalie Eilbert is the award-winning author of two poetry collections, Swan Feast (2015) and Indictus (2018), winner of the 2016 Noemi Press Prize. In addition to her prize-winning chapbooks, And I Shall Again Be Virtuous (2014) and Conversations with the Stone Wife (2014), her works can be found in POETRY, Granta, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. Her works engage with systemic power imbalances, social and environmental justice, and climate change, and were awarded the 2021 George Bogin Memorial Prize. Founding editor of The Atlas Review, she is the recipient of a 2021 Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, and the 2016 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Born and raised in New York, Eilbert is currently based in Wisconsin where she contributes to the Green Bay Press-Gazette and USA TODAY as a local government and mental health reporter.
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The Limits of What We Can Do In Situ Adaptation
Transverse Orientation
(Earth), the
Mediastinum
Mitigation
Components
Caliche
The Sun Is Shining
The Lake
Intercourse
Psalm
Stop
There Is Hope
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Surge
Land of Sweet Waters Consultation
Edge Habitat
The Lake
Bacterium
Gunmetal Gray
Eat and Keep
Bone
If Each Day I Lose Momentum
The Lake
Imaginal Discs
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Crescent Moons
The Ritual
Malignant
It’s a Girl!
Do Not Intervene
Psalm for the World Below
The Lake
Afterlife
Virgin Psalm
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Three of Swords
Dear Daniel—
They Do Not Eat Until They Cleanse Themselves Version Control
Earth (the)
The Lake
Good Luck