Bird Girl, by Emma Claire Fellows

Poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

Bird Girl is a collection of poems from Emma Claire Fellows’s manuscript in progress. The chapbook treads themes of embodied and inherited ancestral memory. Fellows is an architect and preservationist of familial mythos. Fellows utilizes ornithological observations and juxtapositions throughout each poem.

Fellows is interested in the act of witnessing and testifying through the construction and faulty lens of memory. Her poems take form in prose, traditional, and experimental shape as she transverses the fickle land of time. The works of Ilya Kaminsky, Yerra Sugarman, and Rebecca Solnit have served as launching pads for inspiration at various points of Fellows’s writing process.

Emma Claire Fellows is a Brooklyn-based poet who was born and raised in the Metro-Detroit area. She is an amateur birder and believes in ghosts. Emma holds an MFA in Poetry from the New School.