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Rebecca Gayle Howell

About

Rebecca Gayle Howell is an assistant professor of poetry and translation for the University of Arkansas’s MFA program and the longtime poetry editor at the Oxford American. Among her awards are the United States Artists Fellowship, the Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellowship from the Carson McCullers Center, two poetry fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Pushcart Prize.

Articles

Five Poems

By Rebecca Gayle Howell

The Lexington Cure

By Rebecca Gayle Howell
Issue 119, Winter 2022

My Dear Companion

Trio weaved country traditions and the ease of pop music with the wounds of patriarchy.

By Rebecca Gayle Howell
Web Feature

A Decade of New Southern Poetics

Over the years, I have worked to curate a new profile of Southern poetics, one as complex and diverse as the region itself.

By Rebecca Gayle Howell

O, DEATH

Besides the fact that white doves are rare in East Kentucky (unless they are being released from wire cages at your mine-site nuptials), this dove sent a cold chill across Cowan because he’d arrived...

By Rebecca Gayle Howell

SONG AND SENSIBILITY

Since joining the  Oxford American in 2014, I’ve taken the occasion of our annual music issue to offer our readers a variety of special poetry features. I feel that our Georgia issue,...

By Rebecca Gayle Howell

WHAT I LEARNED FROM WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY

Atget, Modotti, Weston, Stieglitz, Avedon, Karsh, Brassaï, Bresson, Ulmann. Jim would hand the books to me with no explanation, no bias of who was who and why and what the world already thought of...

By Rebecca Gayle Howell