“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. 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 November 2025
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
RECENT WORK
Recordings from A Winter Breviary from ST MARTINS VOICES and THE GESUALDO SIX
Recent Work & Praise in Print
