“French Walk,” a Poem by Anna Lena Phillips Bell

Anna Lena Phillips Bell

Anna Lena Phillips Bell is the author of Might Could, winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, Ornament, winner of the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, and the chapbook Smaller Songs, from St Brigid Press. Bell’s work has received support from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Marble House Project, the Winter Anthology Contest, and the North Carolina Arts Council’s Literature Fellowship program. Her artist’s books have been exhibited at Abecedarian Gallery and Asheville Bookworks, and new poems appear in Ploughshares, Orion, The Rumpus, and The Georgia Review. The editor of Ecotone, she teaches at UNC Wilmington.