Anna Lena

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Poet/teacher/editor/printer/plant person. Might Could, winner of the Anthony Hecht Prize, 3/2026 / Ornament, UNT Press / Editor, @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social / Opinions my own; reposts ≠ endorsements linktr.ee/alpb

A pamphlet open to its title page. In yellow text descending the page is One Lightning Bug. In green, below, is Anna Lena Phillips Bell * St Brigid Press 2026
A video of a small pamphlet with a dark blue cover. A white label on the front reads One Lightning Bug – Bell. A hand appears and touches the book's cover with one finger, pushing it down so that a bright yellow dot appears. This happens seven times.
Anna Lena Phillips Bell at AWP 2026 Wednesday, 3/4 32 Poems/Barrelhouse/Smartish Pace reading 7:00–10:00 pm United Methodist Church, 10 East Mt. Vernon Place Thursday, 3/5 The Anthony Hecht Prize: A Twentieth-Anniversary Reading 9:00–10:45 am Room 326, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center Material Encounters: On Teaching the Multimodal 1:45–3:00 pm Room 315, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center Celebrating New Books 5–6 pm Gallery 1448, 1448 E. Baltimore St.
A copy of Might Could, a diminutive poetry book, lying on snowy grass. The cover reads Might Could / Anna Lena Phillips Bell / Winner of the Twentieth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, and features a work in glass by artist Amber Cowan: a footed compote with a clear cloche over it, filled with vegetative forms and a vintage glass fox.
A copy of the winter 2026 issue of Nimrod atop a blue USPS mailbox. The cover displays the magazine's nameplate, its date, and the names of contributors, in colorblocked shades of brown.
The cover of a book on a background of leaves and abstract text. The text on the cover reads Might Could / Anna Lena Phillips Bell / Winner of the Twentieth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Title and author are set in an elegant serifed typeface in a very dark green. In the center of the cover is a sculpture by Amber Cowan, a stylized terrarium all of glass, including leaves, strawberries, and a small Boyd's glass fox beneath a glass dome.
A copy of the fiftieth-anniversary issue of Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review—whose cover is a grid of grayscale and faintly colored images—in a bed of pink azalea flowers and green leaves
A folded paper enclosure printed with red and black text reading THE WORLD IS NOT IN HERE, forces of attention no. 1, holds two letterpress-printed strips of white paper, each of which reads "the world is not in here."
Against Stoicism An itch, untouched, will twitch and wail till an answering scratch unhitches hell. A tempered squeal can conjure oil. Squeak, wheel. You may as well.