Reckonings

Ryan Walsh. Poet. Author of RECKONINGS

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I’m honored to again have my work be the subject of Scott Slovic’s finely honed critical thinking.

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So thrilled to be interviewed for an episode of “Living Writers” with T Hetzel when I was in Ann Arbor. Thanks for the conversation! Listen here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/living-writers/walsh/

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Too Small, Too Slow: Making Toxicity Poignant Through Poetry

By Scott Slovic We often find ourselves lamenting the numbing and paralyzing effects of large -scale phenomena, or textual representations of such phenomena. I’m referring, of course, to global climate change, the Sixth Megaextinction, the ongoing refugee crisis in various parts of the world,

Really honored to have Reckonings included in Scott Slovic’s inquiry into the slow violence of industrial pollution:

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Ink Node

Really pleased to have another poem, “Blind Lemon Something,” featured on Ink Node this week.

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Refuting the Stereotypes of Hillbilly Elegy With Poetry: A Review of Ryan Walsh’s Reckonings

American’s national crisis hinges in part on how hard it is to accept this time of change. We want progress without pain, transformation without torpedoes, and turnover without stuff we like…

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So grateful to read with the incomparable Ann Pancake at White Whale Bookstore. Thanks to all of you who came out for the book launch! And gratitude to Jill & Ad for hosting.

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Book Launch Party! Reckonings/Ryan Walsh with Ann Pancake

Walsh's debut collection of poetry explores the impacts of extractive industries on rural communities and the environment, particularly in Appalachia, while also celebrating the persistent beauty of the natural world and human love. Ryan will be in conversation with West Virginia writer and essay

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Craft Talk: Poets Allison Pitinii Davis and Ryan Walsh - Baobab Press

Baobab Press’s new literary imprint, Red Ochre, is devoted to elevating voices that rescript our conceptions of identity and place. The imprint launched with Allison Pitinii Davis’s 2017 poetry collection, Line Study of a Motel Clerk, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award's Berru Award for Poetry and the Ohioana Book Award. The collection examines a family’s century-long effort to make a home in a changing world, with all the grit, beauty and truth of the working-class immigrant struggle. This February, we’ll release Reckonings, the debut poetry collection by Ryan Walsh that interrogates the dissolution of American industry and rural community. Since these collections share interesting thematic intersections, we recently asked Pitinii Davis and Walsh to sit down for a craft talk. They asked each other about place-specific poetry, about artistic inspiration, about the ethical implications surrounding their work, about the capacious power of poetry, and much more.

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Spelter, West Virginia (Unincorporated) by Ryan Walsh — It’s not what you think. DuPont owns the soiled ground. They’re on the hook for containment, the fate and transport o...

Honored to have this one from the forthcoming collection chosen to be Narrative’s Poem of the Week.

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Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods

New anthology of WV fiction and poetry is on its way (March 1). There’s a nice little review in Kirkus Review: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/laura-long/eyes-glowing-at-the-edge-of-the-woods/

I’m proud to be in there among so many fine West Virginia writers.

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Helen Day Art Center - A Member Supported Community Art Center in Stowe, VT - Contemporary Art

So pleased to be part of the Helen Day Art Center’s 2016 Exposed exhibit. Excerpts of my poem “The Pines” are installed among six storefront windows on Main Street in Stowe, VT. Exposed runs through October 15, 2016.

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Reading Series: Ryan Walsh 7/24/16

Ryan Walsh grew up in West Virginia. He is author of the chapbooks Reckoner (Chickadee Chaps & Broads, 2015) and The Sinks (Midwest Writing Center Press, winner of the 2010 Mississippi Valley Poetry C

Thanks to VSC for a wonderful farewell reading alongside my friend and colleague Laurie Macfee!

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The primary reason I started this Tumblr page is to attempt to corral my poems that are published online into a unified space. Mostly I continue to be deliberate about placing work in print journals (such as Forklift, Ohio) and champion the printed page. This catalog is simply a record of what exists in the cloud.

Several poems have been published on Ink Node:

Blind Lemon Something

Painting

Asparagus

The Field

In the Prairie Hiss of Lithe, Bright Grasses

Cheat River

Sinks of Gandy

And there are three poems in Narrative:

Self Portrait with Exile, Bears, and the Original Carter Family

Pruntytown

A Wild Perfection

(there’s an annoying log-in thing on Narrative’s website, but it is free to sign up and view their content).

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Updated Ink Node link: https://www.inknode.com/ryanwalsh

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Super big thanks to Chickadee Chaps & Broads for bringing RECKONER into the world. This run of 125 fully letter-pressed chapbooks is going fast, but you can get yours here or by contacting me. Thanks!

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Sincere thanks to the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts for an Artist Development Grant of $1,000, which will support my participation in the Bread Loaf ORION Environmental Writers Conference, June 1-7, 2015.

It’s great to have such resources available to artists and writers in Vermont. Check out the VAC’s many grant programs here!