Lillian Emerick Valentine
POET, WRITER, FARMER
photo credit Jamie E. Valentine
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Publications
SELECTED POETRY IN PRINT AND ONLINE
note: some of my earlier work appears under Lily Emerick
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Pastoral With Agroindustry II forthcoming in Ecotone, print
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Elegy Pruning Blueberries forthcoming in Salamander, print
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Preserving The Voice Boxes of Birds published in Redactions, print
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Pastoral With Agroindustry* published in The Fjords Review, online here, and forthcoming in print
*nominated for Best New Poets 2023
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Elegy With A Dream Of A River II published in SWWIM Everyday, online here
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Self-Portrait With The Sound Of The Sea published in Black Fox Literary Magazine, online here
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Even The Sunlight and Penelope Writes Odysseus published in Call Me [Brackets], online here
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Driving To See You After Your Attempt and Daughter Of Rivers Of Stars published in K'in Literary Journal, online
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Oregon Trail published in The Broken City, online here
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Lillian Emerick Valentine is a poet and organic farmer from western Oregon. She currently lives in Missoula, Montana where she is an MFA candidate in poetry and a writing instructor at the University of Montana. Her work centers around the themes of labor, the environment, and human entanglement. She has received a Fishtrap Fellowship, Hugo scholarship, and Kidd scholarship for her poetry, and was selected for the Environmental Humanities reading in Spring 2023. She is the poetry editor for Cutbank Literary Magazine. An avid backpacker, cyclist, and runner, she spends as much time as possible outside.
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