Rose McLarney

author of "The Always Broken Plates of Mountains"

February 4, 2014

Rose McLarney's collection of poems, "Its Day Being Gone," is forthcoming from Penguin Books in 2014 and her book, "The Always Broken Plates of Mountains," was published by Four Way Books 2012. "Its Day Being Gone" is the 2013 National Poetry Series winner. Additionally, Rose has been awarded The Fellowship of Southern Writers' biennial George Garrett New Writing Award for Poetry, Alligator Juniper's 2011 National Poetry Prize and the Joan Beebe Fellowship at Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared in publications including The Kenyon Review, Orion, Slate, New England Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and dozens of other journals. Rose earned her MFA from Warren Wilson's MFA Program for Writers and has taught writing at the college. She is currently is assistant professor of poetry at Oklahoma State University.

Set in the Appalachian landscape, Rose McLarney's debut collection, "The Always Broken Plates of Mountains," gives voice to a chorus of speakers, who are at once plainspoken, reverent, and musical. "There is a tenderness that persists" as McLarney explores mountain land and those who live and love and lose on it, and what it means to be faithful – to oneself, to one's heritage, and to one another. "McLarney's poems are work of the first order. Unsentimental, empathic, informed by her unerring eye and ear." –Jane Brox

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2014-honorees/rose-mclarney

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