Clarissa Adkins
poetry
ABOUT
Clarissa lives in Richmond where she teaches high school English in Chesterfield County Public Schools. She began writing poetry in her early teens. Some of her favorite influences are Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, Sylvia Plath, Rita Dove, Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, Marianne Moore, Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, Erin Belieu, Adrian Matejka, Kevin Prufer, Cate Marvin, Robert Lowell, and many more. She attended James Madison University and earned a Bachelor's in English with a Creative Writing Concentration. In 2018, she received her MFA in Poetry from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 2018, she has been a submission reader for Sugar House Review. She's currently working on the manuscript for her second poetry book. Clarissa also loves painting acrylics and watercolors. Please see below for a list of her publications.
To contact her please email: ccharlotteadkins@gmail.com
Publications
Clarissa's first full-length poetry book, Building Alexandria, is now available at Lily Poetry Review Books
"Cold Turnpikes"
"American Concubine" August 2020
"Sarcastic Prayer" Whurk Magazine
"Elegy for the Bird Killed in the Parking Lot at St. Edward the Confessor's" and "Original Supper" in
Lingering in the Margins: A River City Poets Anthology
“Explanation of Skull Philosophy” Smartish Pace, Issue 25, and Erskine J. Poetry Prize Finalist
“Experiment of a Woman as a Paper Cut-Out” The Pinch Journal, Spring 2018 (38.1)
"Swallowed From a Lead Box" Plath Poetry Project
"Mustard Originelle" Parentheses Journal, Issue 2 (Best of the Net Nomination)
"Nature Trail at Ship Harbor Nature Trail" and "This is Morning" Poems2Go "Featured Poems" section and September 2017
Epic Protest Poems August 2017
"Vista from the Foggy Privilege Observation Balcony" Writers Against Prejudice. July 2016
Flash fiction stories in Nailpolish Stories, a Tiny and Colorful Literary Magazine January 2016
Fitness articles through Livestrong.com. Yoga writer on Examiner.com for Richmond, Virginia.
Chair Yoga for You, a Practical Guide co-authored with Olivette Baugh Robinson & Barbara Leaf Stewart
4/21/21 Lily Poetry Review
5/2/21 Book launch! for Building Alexandria on Lily Poetry Review Books
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