“River Now Called Cape Fear”

 Poems
Mosquitoes, big enough to carry knives / came swarming in the unrelenting air
In Orion 

Smaller Songs

 Chapbook 
What news can a ballad tell? A letterpress-printed chapbook from St Brigid Press 


“Attempt with a Gap in It”

 Poems 
After being called down every fissure, / getting hotter, inching, just kidding, let my / natural offset position quit
In Evergreen Review  



“Like the best fiddle and banjo duets, Bell’s poems are both simple and complex, breezy and profound, powerful and authentic. . . . Here is a living artist who, through passion, talent, and caring about craft, is able to take us inside the music.”

        — Rus Bradburd, the Old-Time Herald, on Ornament


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