FORTHCOMING BOOK

Countryman’s second full-length collection of poems, Green Island, has been selected by Julie Carr for the 2022 Berkshire Prize from Tupelo Press and will be published by Tupelo in 2024. Read Carr’s citation here.

SELECTED RECENT POEMS AND ESSAYS

Essay on composing and revising “Green Island” – underbelly 11.

“Green Island,” “Sink”– The Canary 7.

“Circular” – Denver Quarterly 54:2.

“Homeowner,” “Make Space” – Conduit 30.

“Erasure Poem”– Lana Turner 12.

“Narrative Poem”– The Volta.

“Dresser”– American Poetry Review 48.5. 

“I Promise to Be Honest”– Dusie Tuesday Poem #288. 

“Forest”– Kenyon Review Vol. XL No. 3.

Short essay on composing “Fireworks Phobia Formation” – Poetry Society of America, In Their Own Words.

“100 Overlook Terrace,” “35 Crossbrook Road”– Miracle Monocle 9.

“Remembering NYC as an Animal” – Bennington Review 2.

“Subway Ride, Spring 2002” – Poetry CCIX.2.

“The End Is Always Sudden” – American Poetry Review 45.3.

“Cave” – The Offing.

“You Are in a Lake” – AGNI 81.

“Fireworks Phobia Formation” – The Volta.

“Gray Area” – Boston Review.