Rose McLarney is the author of Its Day Being Gone, winner of the National Poetry Series, and Forage, forthcoming in 2019, both from Penguin Books, as well as The Always Broken Plates of Mountains, published by Four Way Books. A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, which she is co-editing, is forthcoming from University of Georgia Press in 2018. Rose has been awarded fellowships by the MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences; served as Dartmouth Poet in Residence at the Frost Place; and has received other prizes such as Fellowship of Southern Writers' New Writing Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in publications including The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Missouri Review, The Oxford American, and many other journals. Rose earned her MFA from Warren Wilson's MFA Program for Writers and has taught at the college, among other institutions. Currently, she is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Auburn University and Co-Editor in Chief and Poetry Editor of The Southern Humanities Review.

Other poems by Rose McLarney in Verse Daily:
July 12, 2016:   "Pastoral" "Cattle are a black weight on the light sway of land that was once...."

Books by Rose McLarney:

Other poems on the web by Rose McLarney:
"Ambitions"
"Seasonal"
"Each Morning Again"
Three poems
Two poems
Two poems
Six poems
Two poems
"Wet Not With Weeping"
"Poem with a Slur and a Pun in It"
"Story With a Real Beast and a Little Blood in It"
"Guts Gleam"
"Accrual"

Rose McLarney's Website.

About Forage:

"In Forage, Rose McLarney speaks to the interiority that hums inside us as we engage the natural world, which '...speaks of us,' as we 'praise parks, what's left of wilderness, and the literature of the diaspora.' It's all here, and it's all alive with every line, carrying 'children's voices from the playground,' and 'the graveyard, and the vacant lots,' and the possibilities that get us through our day. These poems stun me with their keen eye and their honest telling of what they view. It's refreshing to find this much courage on the page, at a time when we need it the most."
—A. Van Jordan

"Forage is indeed a book about gleaning nourishment from the bizarrely precarious world we have made. She knows deeply what Levertov called 'the animal presence' and how the gravity of their fate informs our psychic life. The brutality in nature is the brutality in us; so too the beauty, this diabolical pas de deux jacked up now by the extremity of our times. These poems in their gorgeous imagistic clarity deepen the story of life and ask of us, as the poet asks of herself, 'to whom / have I made reverence truly known?' And what does the poet revere? The word, the wounded land, the wile of the wild, the shade of trees. An earthly constellation."
—Alison Hawthorne Deming

"It's fitting that Forage opens with what The Junior Dictionary has banished—magpie, blackberry, minnow. Because Rose McLarney's book is a call to prayer—or to arms—making itself a guardian of the diminishing natural world. A fierce edgy charm saves it from rhetoric; one image can haunt her poems, any creature crossing the dangerous road, its 'same last pose, lifting one tentative paw, already off the earth.' The human greats reside here: Virgil, Audubon, his paints and rifle. We lesser ones also, our ordinary griefs over what life gives up and into, despair and forgetting. Beauty. That lives here too."
—Marianne Boruch

"Rose McLarney's Forage is, at heart, about the amplitude of creation. It is also about the human avarice that has overwhelmed the world around us. Reckoning with the most pressing questions regarding abundance and waste, the human capacity for love and corruption, and the raw possibilities of our future, McLarney asks, 'Must the answer be only the variety / of grief?' Given the lateness of things, perhaps so. On the other hand, the work in Forage is also the work of refusal, bringing fierce lament and complex song to the direness of our present."
—Rick Barot