Elizabeth Arnold's Poem to be Featured in the Kenyon Review

Elegy will appear in May 2022.

Elizabeth Arnold's long poem, Elegy, will be featured in the Kenyon Review in May 2022. The poem is part of a book-length sequence titled Wanderer, containing a new translation of the Old English poem, The Wanderer. The book is expected to be published in 2023.

Elegy, a poem about home, contains a fair amount of surprisingly rich found material from an article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by the paleontologist Robert de Palma, who made an important discovery regarding the Chixculub asteroid impact in what is now the Yucatan, how within minutes there was flooding in South Dakota, where de Palma found evidence of mass extinction. Braided into all of this are memories from my childhood, my aging mother, fears about sea level rise, and so on (I grew up on the St. John's River in North Florida), endings that my reading about Chixculub called up.