by Libby Maxey (Author)
Indwelling explores different ways of being inside--inside a work of art, inside the history of a place, inside a pandemic's constraints--but not necessarily at home. Isolated experience seeks the intimacy of indwelling, and that intimacy gradually expands to accommodate a broader, more global perspective. These are poems of connection attempted in the face of mortality, loss, and absence: they personalize encounters with abandoned houses, nod at other writers who will never nod back, and look in old places for alternatives to modern ruts. They dignify the mundane, past and present, and find hope there, too.
Author Biography
Libby Maxey is a senior editor and poetry editor at the online journal Literary Mama, where she has been a staff member since 2012. Her first poetry collection, Kairos (2019), won Finishing Line Press's New Women's Voices Chapbook Competition. She is a winner of the Princemere Poetry Prize and the Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest. Her nonliterary activities include singing classical repertoire and mothering sons.