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Might Could



forthcoming March 2026
from Waywiser Books

One Lightning Bug

 Artist’s book 
What do you love? What do you know? A limited-edition, letterpress-printed booklet from St Brigid Press, released to mark the launch of Might Could

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.

“French Walk”

 Poem 
I wish you blisterless and wiser
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“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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