Poems

The following poems from Still Life with Mother and Knife (LSU 2019) can be found online:

“Introduction to Mycology,” the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day feature on Aug. 27, 2018

“The Corinthian Women,” published in Birmingham Poetry Review and reprinted on Poetry Daily

“The Swimmer,” published in The Missouri Review

Introduction to Statistics,” published in Virginia Quarterly Review

 

 

The following poems from A Raft of Grief can be found online:

A Raft of Grief,” published in The Atlantic Monthly, reprinted on Poetry Daily

English Sonnet,” published in Poetry

Fire Ants,” published in The Atlantic Monthly

The Talker,” from The New Republic

How It Happened,” from New Ohio Review, reprinted on Verse Daily

“The Mother of Beauty, Etc.,” from Mead: The Magazine of Literature & Libations

Night Train” and “Bad-Marriage Bop,” published in B O D Y

 

Uncollected Work:

“Why I Can’t Watch Poltergeist” and “The One About the Haunted House,” published in The Account

“On the Lam,” published in Birmingham Poetry Review

“8 a.m., Ocean Drive,” winner of the 2022 Zócalo Poetry Prize

“Portrait of My Father as an Extra on Miami Vice,” published in StorySouth

“Elegy for an Accordion,” published in The Oxford American (text and audio recording)

Prose

Chelsea’s essays have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, The Notre Dame Review, and The Rumpus. Her essay “The Renters” was reprinted in the anthology Southern Sin: True Stories of the Sultry South and Women Behaving Badly. The short story “In Memoriam” appeared in The Cincinnati Review.