Cecily Parks

Invested in women's experiences in the natural world, my poems chronicle the love and heartbreak of observation, how once you begin close reading the world, there’s no way out of the bind of seeing.

Book cover for the anthology I edited, The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, 2016)

Thumbnail - Book cover for my most recent poetry collection, O'Nights (Alice James Books, 2015)

Cecily Parks is at work on a third poetry collection, poems from which appear in The New Yorker, A Public Space, Best American Poetry 2020, and Best American Poetry 2021. She is the poetry editor for ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment and teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Texas State University.