The poems in E.G. Cunningham’s Apologetics explore tensions of deep ecology in relation to subjective consciousness. Lyric fragments accrete and break to produce several possible readings regarding the role of the observer. Through long-form lyric poetry, Apologetics inhabits the seasons of extremes—summer and winter—and confronts the relationship between external and internal phenomena.
EG Cunningham is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, Field Notes (2025, River River Books) and Ex Domestica (2017, C&R Press), and two chapbooks, Apologetics (2016) and Oranges for Venus, winner of the 1br/3bath Editor’s Choice from Tilted House Press (2024).
Her poems, prose, and hybrid work can be found via The Abandoned Playground, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Fugue, The Lincoln Review, The Nation, Northwest Review, Poetry London, The Poetry Review, Puerto del Sol, Salt Hill, ZYZZYVA, and other publications.
Her original music is available on Apple, Bandcamp, Spotify, and Tidal.
Cunningham was born in South Carolina and raised in Italy and Florida. She lives in Washington.