Glitter Road

January Gill O'Neil is associate professor at Salem State University, and the author of Rewilding, Misery Islands, and Underlife, all published by CavanKerry Press. The recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Cave Canem, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, O'Neil was the 2019-2020 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi.  

I
Autopsy
What’s Left
Narcissi in January
I Take Off My Black Dress
“What’s Love Got to Do with It”
On What Would Have Been Our 20th Wedding Anniversary
Begin Again
On the Edge of a Field in Sumner, Mississippi
Rebel Rebel
Low Delta Country
Bathtub Graveyard

II
Elegy for the End of the World
Jazzfesting in Place
Black Women
After Daunte Wright’s Murder, I Teach a Poetry Class to High Schoolers on Zoom
No Joke
Proving a Theory
Cartwheel
Regret Nothing
At the Rededication of the Emmett Till Memorial, Glendora, MS
Bryant’s Grocery & Meat Market
Rowan Oak
I Slept in John Grisham’s Bed


III
In the Blue Hour
Elation
Woman Swallowed by Python in Her Cornfield
The Beyond Place
The Morning Before the Rains Came
Cheaters
Harvest
Postbellum
Three white Ole Miss students use guns to vandalize a memorial to lynching victim Emmett Till
Driving through Mississippi after the Capitol Hill Riot
Robert Johnson’s Grave

IV
The Great Hello
Boyfriend Pantoum
Dark Matter
Axilla
Dragonfly
Clit Ode
From Memory
Bloom
On Hearing Mississippi’s Governor Declare April “Confederate Heritage Month”
The River Remembers
Mississippi Season
The Map

V
For Ella
Inheritance
Sheltering in Place
Manifesto
Aubade
Glitter Road


Notes
Acknowledgments