Writing — Claressinka Anderson

Selected Work

Poetry

“In the Beginning There Were Swings Made of Gold,” 2025 Leonard Cohen Poetry Prize Finalist, ONLY POEMS

Oxford Poetry Summer 2025 | The front cover features lines from the poem “End Of,” from the issue. “End Of” was a finalist for the 2024 Oxford Poetry Prize.
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“Manhunt,” Boulevard Winter 2025—Volume 39, No. 1 (2025 Pushcart Prize nominee)
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“Srdicko Bolí ,” Los Angeles Review of Books: The LARB Quarterly, no. 43

“Redbud,” Pleiades 44.2: Fall 2024
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“This is Not the Mouth” (Winner) & “The Blades” (Runner-Up). Both poems were selected by Traci Brimhall for the 2022 Michelle Boisseau Poetry Prize, Bear Review || Interview: This is Not the Mouth: Claressinka Anderson, the 2022 Michelle Boisseau Poetry Prize Winner & Runner-Up, on Her Process & Poetics

“Subject,” Bloodroot Literary Magazine

“Epigraph,” Best New Poets
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“L.A. Sonnet,” The Los Angeles Press, V6

“Disruption,” bedfellows winter 2022

“Press Send (Six Hours),” Dream House, Hexentexte

“On the Consumption of Rare Animals,” What Rough Beast, Indolent Books

“Lullaby,” Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, Haymarket Books

Magdalene, Prototype Festival, NYC, 2020
Program notes include “Aubade for Magdalene” and a poet-led conversation

“On Dreams,” Stas Orlovski: Projections, Traywick Contemporary Publications

“On Foxes,” The Los Angeles Press, Volume Zero

“White Wall” & “Bird Chronicles,” Artillery Magazine

“For Eric and Rodin,” Chiron Review