Awards

• Winner of The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize 2025

Overview

In recipes, spells, odes and elegies, To Wildness conjures what has been lost and what remains. These are poems of the body. They rub up against one another and knock elbows. Plum Jam calls preserving fruit as spiritual labor: To be elbow deep in a barrel/arms gloved crimson. In this collection, the dead reside alongside the living. Ancestors roost in trees, having forgotten language, their coats inside out. Others sulk in the eaves, their ears clogged with clover. The past made vivid renders an extravagant present and offers a balm to the isolation of the contemporary world.

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A glorious exuberance of catalog and character, rural landscape and dark imaginings. -- Joan Houlihan, author of It Isn’t a Ghost if it Lives in Your Chest Wildly alive—inventive and spunky and all over the map. -- Ellen Doré Watson, author of pray me stay eager

Author Information

The granddaughter of a Harlan County coal miner, Julia Thacker was raised in Dayton Ohio. She first came to Massachusetts as a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She has also been the recipient of fellowships from The Bunting Institute at Radcliffe (now The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study), the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her poems appear in Bennington Review, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, Southern Humanities Review, and The New Republic. A portfolio of her work is included in the 25th anniversary issue of Poetry International. Julia has taught writing at Tufts University, Radcliffe Seminars and as Poet-in-Residence in public schools throughout the state. In 2024, she was an Edith Wharton Writer-in-Residence at The Mount in Lenox. She lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.

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