{"id":32063,"date":"2025-01-31T09:45:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T17:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/?p=32063"},"modified":"2025-02-11T11:39:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T19:39:49","slug":"blooming-beyond-the-mfa-emily-j-mundys-what-blooms-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/news\/2025\/01\/31\/blooming-beyond-the-mfa-emily-j-mundys-what-blooms-in-the-dark","title":{"rendered":"Blooming Beyond the MFA: Emily J. Mundy\u2019s What Blooms in the Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Seattle-based poet, teacher, and literary series curator Emily J. Mundy has recently published her debut book of poems, What Blooms in the Dark<\/em><\/a>, with Moon Tide Press (October 2024). Mundy is a graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics<\/a> program at UW Bothell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tracing the poet\u2019s journey of release, return, and rebirth, this debut collection dives into the dark necessarily, as a precursive measure for arching back up toward the light. Poems that recount generational violence and addiction converse with others that conjure healing and illumination in the cycles of nature. What Blooms in the Dark<\/em>, ultimately, is a work of spiritual transformation and the power of love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s what local authors are saying:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emily Mundy’s debut collection of poems is every flower of a girl shedding petals into womanhood, every child hefting the inheritance of addiction, and every love that offers distraction, joy, or grace from the call a knife makes to the flesh. Mundy says, “Let me feed you all the years I\u2019ve been gnawing on” and our mouths are full\u2014language so delicious that we are happy to swallow the gristle of bitterness. An absented body described from inside the skin with honey-thick words weaves so sweetly together themes of abuse and abandonment, grief and death, addiction and dysphoria, that they become blood-chorus, bones singing.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Amber Flame, author of Ordinary Cruelty<\/em> and apocrifa<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emily Mundy’s book is sensual and singed, a spell of smoke and ocean. 足彩app哪个是正规的 body finds and loses track of itself, in the mother\u2019s hand-me-downs, in a skeleton in the closet, in a \u201clace of organs.\u201d \u201cEstranged ecstasy\u201d takes cover in the cleaved and split but through the attention of myriad eyes\u2014eyes as moths, as gnarled hands, glassy eyes and an eye on a solo journey, an eye deemed insignificant, eyes full throttle, and flying eyes\u2014ecstasy returns, \u201can electrical conduit unable to un-feel.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Melanie Noel, author of 足彩app哪个是正规的 Monarchs<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hers is redemptive work.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Rebecca Brown, author of Not Heaven, Somewhere Else<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information about Emily\u2019s offerings\u2014the Poetry S\u00e9ance, upcoming events & classes, and to subscribe to her monthly newsletter\u2014visit emilyjmundy.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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