Cory Hutchinson-Reuss - Triptych

Poetry editor of Brink Literary Journal Cory Hutchinson-Reuss will read from her collection of poems, Triptych. Triptych’s central concern is care: for the incarcerated, for the body, for the natural world. The richly descriptive poems in this collection mimic the three-part medieval paintings the book is named for, each part echoing the others. The result is a meditation on the relationship of self, society, and nature, one that resists easy answers. Written within and against the context of American political, spiritual, and carceral fatalism, Triptych imagines the possibility of transformative encounters everywhere.

Poet Becca Klaver praises Triptych as "gorgeously baroque language [that] evokes the warp and weft of kinship," and Lori Branch says, "These luminous poems cast their light on the earthy, subterranean pathways to the heart...This is art for the soul’s inner room, grounded and incandescent."

Cory Hutchinson-Reuss’s work appears in a collaborative chapbook of her poems and the visual art of Giselle Simón published by Prompt Press in their Gallery Series. Her poems and hybrid writings have appeared in LIT Magazine, Concision Poetry Journal, Missouri Review online, The Offing, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Iowa and lives in Iowa City.