“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
Coming April 28th, 2026
from Project Poëtica / Bridwell Press
ERASE GENESIS
We are partnering with The Bookstore at The Berry Center for our pre-order celebration. All orders placed through them will be 20% off until April 28th and will arrived signed.
Profits benefit The Berry Center, who are putting Wendell’s writings “to work by advocating for farmers, land-conserving communities, and healthy regional economies.”
Buying gifts for Earth Day and want your copies personally inscribed? Send me a note.
“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 eco-poetics for our apocalyptic age.”
- Philip Metres
Author of Fugitive / Refuge
Recipient, William Carlos Williams Award
“This is a book that unties the knots of harmful tradition, a book to meditate on slowly, to hold and to be held by. This is a book to awaken any spiritual life.”
- Cassidy Hall
Filmmaker, Podcaster, &
Author of Queering Contemplation
“Here, scripture becomes sculpture. I love this book.”
- George Ella Lyon
Kentucky Poet Laureate
2015 - 2017
“In Rebecca Gayle Howell’s Erase Genesis, the earth is a divine gift to be translated. Howell’s approach is ecological, a kind of crop rotation in place of the mono-cropping interpretive practices that have impoverished us spiritually, ecologically, and existentially. Beneath Howell’s tending hand, dominant language lies fallow, allowing the flourishing of root systems and narratives that have been there all along. The work is nothing short of sacred.”
- Claire Wahmanholm
Author of Meltwater
A National Book Foundation Science + Literature Selection
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.
RECENT WORK
In Print
In Music
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