Anna Lena Phillips Bell

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Might Could



forthcoming March 2026
from Waywiser Books

“French Walk”

 Poem 
I wish you blisterless and wiser
At Literary Hub 

Photographs and poems 

 Feature 
Your body is a reckoning / 
with its history, is a labor, a blessing, / is to be fed mustard greens and cake.

“River Now Called Cape Fear”

 Poem 
Mosquitoes, big enough to carry knives / came swarming in the unrelenting air
In Orion
“In Might Could, Anna Lena Phillips Bell emerges as one of the best lyric poets writing in America today, and simultaneously emerges as an even more profoundly rare poet—a poet who has discovered not only a new song, but a new way of making musicality the first concern of poetry. Hers is an irresistible art.”

         —Shane McCrae, judge, Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize

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© 2025 Anna Lena Phillips Bell. Cover art © 2024 Amber Cowan.
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