Celeris

by Emily O'Neill

Emily O’Neill was born on the bedroom floor in her mother’s childhood home and has been making loud messes ever since. Her first collection, Pelican, won YesYes Books’ inaugural Pamet River Prize and her recent work has been featured in Cutbank, The Journal, Minnesota Review, Redivider, and Washington Square, among many others. She has a degree in the synaesthesia of storytelling from Hampshire College and, when not selling sushi and sake bombs at a rock n roll izakaya in the Fenway, teaches writing at the Boston Center for Adult Education.

Genres: Poetry

61 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2016

About the author

Emily O'Neill is an artist, writer, and proud Jersey girl. New poems are forthcoming in The Journal, Minnesota Review, Redivider, and Washington Square, among others. Her poem "de Los Muertos" was selected by Jericho Brown as the winner of Gigantic Sequins' second annual poetry contest.She holds a degree in the synesthesia of storytelling from Hampshire College and teaches creative writing courses at the Boston Center For Adult Education.

Her debut collection, Pelican, is the inaugural winner of the Pamet River Book Prize, awarded by Yes Yes Books to first collections from female-identified and gender queer poets, and is available now. She lives in Medford, MA with two brilliant Feral Bitch writers and the inimitable Roger Mindfucker.

Reviews

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is my second experience of Emily's poetry, her first collection Pelican was absolutely mesmerizing. This collection was shorter than the first but still captivating and succinct. The poems flow easily from one to the other, each being unique and the imagery was developed progressively.

Celeris relates to a pony/horse in Greek Mythology, and the horse imagery was used constantly throughout intertwined with love, rejection, sex, inferiority, desire and freedom.

[Margaryta · Rating 4 out of 5]

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