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About - Dion O'Reilly
Bio
Dion O'Reilly third book, Limerence, was finalist for The Floating Bridge Press John Pierce Chapbook Competition for Washington State Poets. She is the author of Sadness of the Apex Predator (Cornerstone Press 2024) and Ghost Dogs (Terrapin 2020). Her work appears in Cincinnati Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Tar River Poetry, and Rattle. She is a podcaster at The Hive Poetry Collective, leads private poetry workshops, and is co-editor of En•Trance Journal. She splits her time between a ranch in the Santa Cruz Mountains and a residence in Bellingham, Washington.​
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Artist Statement
Dion will read from her newest collection Limerence. Here's what Francesca Bell had to say about Limerence:
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“Dion O’Reilly’s poetry collection, Limerence, though it chronicles the slow starvation of the stubbornly infatuated, is a feast. Its speaker is a bird who cannot stop herself from singing, in poem after poem, her gorgeous, glittering, aching song. “When I was twenty,” she tells us, “I fell for a devil / with tin-can eyes,” a man who “could harp the strings of my body.” Limerence is collection of love poems that chronicle, across a lifetime, the fallout of that early meeting, engaging with that most difficult of losses to parse: the loss of a love we maybe never really had. Poems, like memories, are “trinkets to help you / remember a beautiful place where you can’t live.” Long after readers turn the final page of Limerence, they will recall its gleaming, haunting landscapes.”Francesca Bell