The 2025
Aiken Taylor
Award for
Modern
American
Poetry
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 February 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
