“There’s an unexpected intimacy, a sense of the physicality of life, of death and of endurance, which in the end is all we have. Howell gets at all of this with precision, pitiless but not unfeeling, knee-deep, waist-deep in the world.”
—The Los Angeles Times
For Rebecca Gayle Howell art is a practice of place, the Earth’s intelligence, which is always specific and always divine.
Working from rural Kentucky, Howell roots in the most human of forms: the spiritual imagination—as she merges modes like myth and realism across song, poetry, and prose.
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Also an award-winning editor, she is well known for her generous precision as she helps writers locate their stories, as well as their voice.
Coming spring 2026
from Project Poëtica / Bridwell Press
ERASE GENESIS
“There is no endorsement adequate
to the complexity & insight of this book.”
- Mary Evelyn Tucker
Co-Founder
Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology
“This is where a masterful erasure meets Meister Eckhart,
a futuristic ecopoetics for our apocalyptic age.”
- Philip Metres
Author of Fugitive / Refuge
Recipient, William Carlos Williams Award
“The work is nothing short of sacred.”
- Claire Wahmanholm
Author of Meltwater
A National Book Foundation Science + Literature Selection
behold
Behold is a Substack for everyday contemplatives who want to remember awe is a birthright. There, Rebecca shares her practice of attention and builds a community to do the same.
Songs, stories, and poems are systems of pattern-making. So is the universe. My life gets a whole lot more interesting when I remember that I am not just another pattern-maker, I am a part of the hum.
– Rebecca Gayle Howell
RECENT WORK
In Print
