About
Emily Barton Altman is a writer and editor. She is the author of two chapbooks, Bathymetry (Present Tense Pamphlets, 2016) and Alice Hangs Her Map (dancing girl press, 2019). Recent poems appear in The Spectacle, Bone Bouquet, Second Factory, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a Poets & Writers Amy Award and holds an MFA from New York University and a PhD from the University of Denver. Photo by Chelsey Farnum.
Writing
Selected Poems
Three poems from “Static,” California Quarterly, 2024
“Landscape with Fog,” “Landscape with Winter,” The Spectacle, 2023
“from Bathymetry,” Bone Bouquet, 2023
“Bodies of Water,” “Edge,” “Look,” Tyger Quarterly, 2022
“Canals,” “Recreation,” “Ballast,” “Carp,” “Fish,” Quarterly West, 2022
“Water is for Drifting,” Second Factory, 2022
“Turn,” “Score for Dunes,” “To Think About the Mileage,” La Vague, 2021
“Score for Light,” “[Laurentian Strata],” “The Seaway,” Tagvverk, 2021
“Bathymetry,” “Girlhood,” “Morning,” Always Crashing, 2020
“Score for Invasive Species,” “Score for Remapping,” “Landscape with Palisade,” “Rewilding,” “Score for Approaching Winter,” DREGINALD, 2020
“from Disassemblage,” Burning House Press, 2020
“Landscape with Horizon,” “Landscape with Winds,” Gigantic Sequins, 2019
“To cause to stand still,” The Iowa Review, 2019
"With Maps," "from Disassemblage," Bodega Magazine, 2018
"[Melodramatic]," "[Alice hedges]," "[Perhaps Alice]," "[Alice distributes]," "[Alice folds]," "[In a river full]," "[Alice is round]," "[The city empties]," "[Alice folds the laundry]," "[Alice breaks]," "[the sky omits]," The Journal Petra, 2017
Two Sonnets, Dream Pop Press, 2017
"Of the Body," "You are not in California," "Essay," "The Fall," "Composition," TL;DR Magazine, 2017
"Because," Parallax/Singing Saw Press, 2016
"Excavation," "Alice hangs her map," "Alice buries her dead," "Sonnet," "Alice and the Wife," wicked alice, 2013
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