Scholarly/Creative Works

• Parks, C. G. (n.d.). The Seeds. Alice James Books. Retrieved from https://www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/the-seeds
• Parks, C. G. (n.d.). “Girlhood” and “Texas Natives.” In The Ecopoetry Anthology: Volume II. Trinity University Press.

• Parks, C. G. (n.d.). “Amistad Gambusia.” The Nation.
• Parks, C. G. (n.d.). “September.” The Believer.
• Parks, C. G. (n.d.). “The Dance I Invented in West Texas.” Lake Flato Journal.
• Parks, C. G. (2024, August). “Tangerine Crossvine.” Sierra. The Sierra Club. Retrieved from https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2024-2-summer/cecily-parks-tangerine-crossvine
• Parks, C. G. (2024). “Hackberry.” In You are Here: Poetry in the Natural World. Milkweed Editions. Retrieved from https://milkweed.org/book/you-are-here
• Parks, C. G. (2024). “Texas Natives.” In Texas, Being: A State of Poems. Trinity University Press. Retrieved from https://tupress.org/9781595342928/texas-being/
• Parks, C. G. (2024, April). “Hackberry.” The Rumpus. Retrieved from https://therumpus.net/2024/03/29/from-you-are-here-poetry-in-the-natural-world/

• Parks, C. G. (2023, November). “Gold Ring.” High Country News.
• Parks, C. (2023, October). “My Own Private Underground.” SWING. Nashville, TN. Retrieved from https://www.porchtn.org/swing
• Parks, C. G. (2023, October). “Girlhood.” Lincoln Center Theater Review: The Gardens of Anuncia. New York, NY: Lincoln Center Theater. Retrieved from https://www.lct.org/explore/magazine/
• Parks, C. G. (2023, October). “Elevation.” Funispace: Exhibition Catalog. Minneapolis, MN: Weinstein Hammons Gallery. Retrieved from https://www.weinsteinhammons.com/justin-newhall-funispace
• Parks, C. G. (2023, May 8). “The Ecology in Ekphrasis.” Poetry Daily. Retrieved from https://poems.com/features/what-sparks-poetry/cecily-parks/
• Parks, C. G. (2023). “Conversation between Fox and Field.” In Little Poems. New York, NY: Penguin Random House / Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets. Retrieved from https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/PTO/everymans-library-pocket-poets-series?page=1

• Parks, C. G. (2022). “Pandemic Parable.” The Best American Poetry 2022. New York, NY: Scribner. Retrieved from https://www.bestamericanpoetry.com/
• Parks, C. G. (2022, July). “Cecily Aching Best.” Harvard Review. Retrieved from https://harvardreview.org/content/cecily-aching-best/
• Parks, C. G. (2022, July). “Clipping.” The Yale Review. Retrieved from https://yalereview.org/article/cecily-parks-clipping
• Parks, C. G. (2022, April 14). “Sunday.” Poem-A-Day. Academy of American Poets.

• Parks, C. G. (2021, November). “When I Was Thoreau at Night.” Echoes from Walden: Poems Inspired by Thoreau’s Life and Work. Wayfarer Books. Retrieved from https://homeboundpublications.square.site/product/echoes-from-walden/146?cs=true&cst=custom

• Parks, C. G. (2020). “The Seeds.” In Best American Poetry 2020. New York, NY: Scribner.
• Parks, C. G. (2020, February 17). “December.” The New Yorker. New York, NY. Retrieved from https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/17/december

• Parks, C. G. (2019, December). “The Indiana Bats.” Orion Magazine. Great Barrington, MA, USA: The Orion Society. Retrieved from https://orionmagazine.org/
• Parks, C. G. (2019, September). “The Seeds.” New England Review. Middlebury, VT, USA: Middlebury College. Retrieved from http://www.nereview.com/

• Parks, C. G. (2018, June 27). “On Rewilding.” Boston Review.
• Parks, C. G. (2018, April 30). “Girlhood.” The New Yorker. New York, NY. Retrieved from https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/girlhood
• Parks, C. G. (2018, April 25). “Front Yard Rhyme.” Poetrydaily.Org.
• Parks, C. G. (2018, March). “Hansel and Gretel.” Tin House. Portland, OR, USA: Tin House. Retrieved from http://tinhouse.com/shop/filters/product_cat/magazine/
• Parks, C. G. (2018, March). “Front Yard Rhyme.” Tin House. Portland, OR, USA: Tin House. Retrieved from http://tinhouse.com/shop/filters/product_cat/magazine/
• Parks, C. G. (2018, January). “Letter to the Pistolsmith.” Iron Horse Literary Review: Best of IHLR Poetry.

• Parks, C. G. (2017, December). “Harvest.” The New Republic. New York, NY, United States.
• Parks, C. G. (2017, December). “Texas Natives.” Harvard Review. Cambridge, MA, USA: Houghton Library, Harvard University. Retrieved from http://www.harvardreview.org/?q=print-issues/harvard-review-51
• Parks, C. G. (2017, December). “Harvest.” The New Republic. New York, NY, USA: Lake Avenue Publishing. Retrieved from https://newrepublic.com/authors/cecily-parks
• Parks, C. G. (2017, December). “Epiphyte Parable.” Under a Warm Green Linden. Christopher Nelson. Retrieved from http://www.greenlindenpress.com/issue4
• Parks, C. G. (2017, December). “Linen Closet Rhyme.” Under a Warm Green Linden. Christopher Nelson. Retrieved from http://www.greenlindenpress.com/issue4
• Parks, C. G. (2017, May 26). Untitled Piece on Reading Poetry to My Daughters. The Critical Flame: A Journal of Literature and Culture. Online. The Critical Flame. Retrieved from http://criticalflame.org/motherlit-barber-mnookin-parks-ross/
• Parks, C. G. (2017, February 5). “The American West”; “Laurel Parable”; “Neighboring.” Wave Composition. Retrieved from http://www.wavecomposition.com/
• Parks, C. G. (2017, January 25). “Conversations with the Moon.” Southern Humanities Review Online. Auburn, AL: Auburn University. Retrieved from http://www.southernhumanitiesreview.com/conversations-with-the-moon-by-cecily-parks.html

• Parks, C. (2016, December 1). “Datura Parable.” Bennington Review. Bennington, VT, United States: Bennington College. Retrieved from www.benningtonreview.org
• Parks, C. G. (2016, October). “Backyard Rhyme”; "Crepe Myrtle”: “If You Were to Build a Coyote". Terrain.Org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments. Retrieved from http://www.terrain.org/
• Parks, C. G. (2016, October). “In the Old Story”; “Wild Flower.” Alaska Quarterly Review. Anchorage, AK, United States: University of Alaska Anchorage. Retrieved from https://aqreview.org/
• Parks, C. G. (2016). “Hurricane Song.” In Pushcart Prize XLI: Best of the Small Presses (Vol. XLI). New York, NY, United States.
• Parks, C. (2016). The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses. New York, NY, United States: Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets.
• Cecily Parks and Environmental Sociology. The Contemporary Poem: Poetry and the Poetic at SUNY Geneseo English. Geneseo, NY: State University of New York Geneseo. National. March 19, 2016.
  • Reviewed by: Mary Auld.
• The Untamable Wilderness: A Review of Cecily Parks’s O’Nights. Kenyon Review Online. Gambier, OH: Kenyon Review. National. March 15, 2016.
  • (Refereed) Reviewed by: Willie VerSteeg.
• Hannah Fries, “O’Nights.”. Southern Humanities Review. March 4, 2016.
  • (Refereed).
• On the Bookshelf. Rice Magazine. Houston, TX: Rice University. International. March 1, 2016.
• Cecily Parks’ "Skylight": A Peek into the Poetic Landscapes of O’Nights. Alexandra van de Kamp: Blog. Online. February 11, 2016.
  • Reviewed by: Alexandra van de Kamp.

• Parks, C. (2015). Review [Review of Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, by R. Gay]. Boston Review. Boston Review. Retrieved from http://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=36564
• Parks, C. (2015). “Conversation Between Fox and Field”. Retrieved from http://broadsidedpress.org/bus/moscow2015/2015-FoxField.pdf
• Winter Poetry Reads. Boston Review. November 1, 2015.
  • (Refereed) Reviewed by: Rowena Kennedy-Epstein.
• Parks, C. (2015). The Swamps of Emily Dickinson. In Scribes of Nature: Representing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield). Retrieved from https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498508377/Writing-the-Environment-in-Nineteenth-Century-American-Literature-The-Ecological-Awareness-of-Early-Scribes-of-Nature
• Parks, C. (2015). “Morning Instructions for the Doctor’s Wife” (Vol. 32). The New Yorker. Retrieved from http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/06/22/morning-instructions-for-the-doctors-wife
• Lisa Russ Spaar on Secret History of the Dividing Line and O™Nights -- Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry. Los Angeles Review of Books. June 1, 2015.
  • (Peer).
• Parks, C. (2015, April). Review [Review of A Place for Humility: Whitman, Dickinson, and the Natural World, by C. Gerhardt]. The Emily Dickinson Journal. The Emily Dickinson Journal. Retrieved from http://www.uiowapress.org/books/2014-fall/place-humility.htm
• Parks, C. (2015). “Hurricane Song.” poetrydaily.org.
• Parks, C. (2015). O’Nights. Farmington, ME: Alice James Books. Retrieved from http://alicejamesbooks.org/ajb-titles/onights/
• Parks, C. (2015). “Blue Oat Grass Epithalamium,” “The Last Garden” (Vol. 6). Tupelo Quarterly. Retrieved from <http://www.tupeloquarterly.com/tag/cecily-parks/>
• O'Nights. Publishers Weekly. March 1, 2015.
  • (Peer).

• Parks, C. (2014). The Secret Swamps of Susan Howe in “Secret History of the Dividing Line,” “Thorow,” and “Personal Narrative.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Study of Literature and Environment, 21(Spring 2014), 353–373. Retrieved from http://isle.oxfordjournals.org
• Parks, C. (2014). “Amphibious”, “Twelve-Wired Bird-of-Paradise” (Issue 1, September 2014). Oversound. Retrieved from http://www.oversoundpoetry.com/
• Parks, C. (2014). “Aubade with Bicycle” (2nd ed., Vol. 12). 32 Poems.
• Parks, C. (2014). “Aubade with Foxes”; “I Have Set Fire to the Forest”; “Pilgrim”; “Skylight.” The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies.
• Parks, C. (2014). “Plastic Flower.” In The Petroleum Manga. Brooklyn, NY: Peanut Books.
• Parks, C. (2014, December). Review of Karen Kilcup, Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women’s Environmental Writing, 1781-1924. Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. Legacy. Retrieved from http://legacywomenwriters.org/
• Parks, C. (2014, May 31). On Ecopoetry and an Unnatural World [Review of The Fact of the Matter: Poems,The Hundred Grasses: Poems, Companion Grasses: Poems, by B. Teare, S. Keith, & L. Wilson]. Los Angeles Review of Books. Los Angeles Review of Books.
• Parks, C. G. (2014, April). “Conversation Between Fox and Field.” Another Chicago Magazine.

• Parks, C. (2013). The Swamps of Emily Dickinson. The Emily Dickinson Journal, 22(Spring 2013), 29-Jan. Retrieved from https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/emily_dickinson_journal/
• Parks, C. (2013). “The Hospital at the End of the Forest,” “The Swallow Dips Her Wing in Midnight Pools” (8th ed.). Phantom Limb. Retrieved from http://www.phantomlimbpress.com/Phantom_Limb/Home.html
• Parks, C. (2013, September 26). Awakening: Coming of Age as a Woman in a Country at War [Review of Savage Coast, by M. Rukeyser]. Boston Review Online. Retrieved from http://bostonreview.net/fiction/awakening
• Parks, C. (2013). “Love Poem.” In The Yale Review (Vol. 101). New Haven, CT: Wiley. Retrieved from http://www.yale.edu/yalereview/
• Parks, C. (2013). “Fieldfare,” “Hesperis matronalis,” “Post Pastoral” (131st ed.). The Offending Adam. Retrieved from http://www.theoffendingadam.com/

• Parks, C. (2012). My First Time: Cecily Parks on Gwendolyn Brooks. Memorious Blog. Retrieved from https://memoriousmag.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/the-first-time-cecily-parks-hears-gwendolyn-brooks/
• Parks, C. (2012). On Lorine Niedecker’s “Paean to Place.” At Length. Retrieved from http://atlengthmag.com/poetry/short-takes-on-long-poems-volume-1/#parks
• Parks, C. (2012). “Dancing with the Doctor,” “Hurricane Song,” “When I Was Thoreau at Night” (Fall 2012, Vol. XXXIV, pp. 102–104). Gambier, OH: The Kenyon Review. Retrieved from http://www.kenyonreview.org/
• Parks, C. (2012, December). Fiction Review [Review of Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World, by S. Berman]. Orion.
• Parks, C. (2012). The Place Where I Write. The Orion Blog. Retrieved from https://orionmagazine.org/2012/02/the-place-where-i-write-cecily-parks/
• Parks, C. (2012). “Bell.” Orion. Retrieved from www.orionmagazine.org

• Parks, C. (2011). Glass Gardens: When Art Imitates Botanical Life. Orion, 30.
• Parks, C. (2011). “Agnes Chase’s Second Book of Grasses” (Issue 22, 2011, pp. 20–24). San Antonio, TX: American Letters & Commentary. Retrieved from http://www.amletters.org/
• Parks, C. (2011). “A Blessing for Stocked Fish”; “Self-Portrait as Angler’s Damselfly.” Poems About Fishing. New York: Alfred A. Knopf/Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets.

• Parks, C. (2010). Poetry Review [Review of The Common Man, by M. Manning]. Orion.
• Parks, C. (2010). “Bell.” Orion. Retrieved from http://www.orionmagazine.org/
• Parks, C. (2010). “Sentinel.” In Virginia Quarterly Review. University of Virginia. Retrieved from http://www.vqronline.org/
• Parks, C. (2010). “Jugarum.” Orion.
• Parks, C. (2010). “My Yellowstone”; “Speculatrix at the Mountaintop Observatory.” Gulf Coast.
• Parks, C. (2010). “Speculatrix at the Mountaintop Observatory”. versedaily.org.
• Parks, C. (2010). “The Queen of Peas.” Boog City Review.
• Parks, C. (2010). “Speculatrix at the Mountaintop Observatory” (9/1/2010 ed.). Verse Daily. Retrieved from www.versedaily.org
• Parks, C. (2010). “Savage.” Redivider.

• Parks, C. (2009). “I Lost My Horse.” In Horse Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf/Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets.
• Parks, C. (2009, April). Love Letters [Review of White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, by B. Wineapple]. Boston Review.
• Parks, C. (2009). “The Introspective Vocabulary.” KR Online.

• Parks, C. (2008). Field Folly Snow. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press. Retrieved from http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/field_folly_snow/
• Parks, C. (2008). “Equus Ferus,” “Letter to the Soft-Handed Bartender.” Gulf Coast.
• Parks, C. (2008). “How to Read a Mackerel Sky.” In Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House. Portland and New York: Tin House Books.
• Parks, C. (2008). “I Lost My Horse.” poetrydaily.org.

• Parks, C. (2007). “Maple”: A Model for the Finding, Thinking, and Loving Mind. The Robert Frost Review, 17(Fall 2007), 16–26. Retrieved from http://www.robertfrostsociety.org/id3.html
• Parks, C. (2007). On Keraunophobia. In A Leaky Tent is a Piece of Paradise: Twenty Young Writers on Finding a  Place in the Natural World. Sierra Club Books.
• Parks, C. (2007). “Letter to the Horsebreaker.” Denver Quarterly.
• Parks, C. (2007). “The Fern Seed.” In N. Tretheway (Ed.), Best New Poets 2007. Charlottesville, VA: Samovar Press.

• Parks, C. (2006). “A First Warning to the Eel Fisherman.” Lost.
• Parks, C. (2006). “Early, Vicious, Obvious.” Antioch Review.
• Parks, C. (2006). “How to Read a Mackerel Sky”; “In Colder Weather.” Tin House.
• Parks, C. (2006). “Self-Portrait as Seismograph.” Boston Review.
• Parks, C. (2006). “The Fern Seed.” versedaily.org.
• Parks, C. (2006). “The Fern Seed.” River Styx.
• Parks, C. (2006). “Self-Portrait as Seismograph.” poetrydaily.org.

• Parks, C. (2005). Cold Work. New York, NY: Poetry Society of America. Retrieved from https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/chapbook_fellowship/2005/cold_work/
• Parks, C. (2005). “A Blessing for Stocked Fish.” New England Review.
• Parks, C. (2005). “A Mountain Lion Makes Ready”; “Beast-Lover Variations”; “Luna Moth.” Blackbird.
• Parks, C. (2005). “Coffee Maker.” poetrydaily.org.
• Parks, C. (2005). “Eddy.” The Yale Review.
• Parks, C. (2005). “Fort Bonneville, Wyoming”; “Porch Snow.” Smartish Pace.
• Parks, C. (2005). “Self-Portrait as Anglers Damselfly.” Virginia Quarterly Review.
• Parks, C. (2005). “Self-Portrait as Anglers Damselfly.” In G. Garrett (Ed.), Best New Poets 2005. Charlottesville, VA: Samovar Press.
• Parks, C. (2005). “Vessel.” Five Points.
• Parks, C. (2005). “Vessel.” versedaily.org.

• Parks, C. (2004). “End of August” (Emerging Poets Issue). Carolina Quarterly Review.
• Parks, C. (2004). “Venus from the Hot Tub.” Cincinnati Review.

• Parks, C. (2003). “Coffee Maker”; “Pink Salmon.” Southern Review.
• Parks, C. (2003). “Pink Salmon.” versedaily.org.

• Parks, C. (2002). “Chevron and Swoop.” versedaily.org.
• Parks, C. (2002). “Chevron and Swoop.” Southwest Review.

• Parks, C. (2001). “Severance.” The Yale Review.