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Call & Response
new and selected poems
Emily Hiestand
forthcoming from Ebb Tide Editions, Spring 2026
Poems from this collection have appeared in Green (recipient of the National Poetry Award, Graywolf Press, 1989); in magazines and journals (among them The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, Hudson Review, The Georgia Review, Verse, Prairie Schooner, and Southwest Review); and in numerous anthologies, including Best American Poetry, Urban Nature, City Wilds, Working the Dirt, and Night Out.
Cover image: detail of the watercolor “The Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and St-Laurent at Eu,”1845, Joseph Mallord William Turner. (Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest, 1856.) Photo: Tate. Used courtesy of the Tate Museum, London. Full image at the Tate Images Library.