Megan J. Arlett

Biography

Megan J. Arlett is the recipient of two Academy of American Poets prizes and the phoebe nonfiction prize. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets 2019, Best New British and Irish Poets, Gulf Coast, the Kenyon Review, the New England Review, Prairie Schooner, and the Sun.

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POETRY / Fiction 2024

On Learning Ada Lovelace’s Father Was Lord Byron

By Megan J. Arlett

Is programming not a kind of poetry?
Ones and zeros of the heart.

POETRY / Fiction 2024

ASL I

By Megan J. Arlett

At thirty, I am a child again learning
banana, apple, and orange,
clasping words and fumbling my meanings.

POETRY / Fiction 2024

December, West Sussex

By Megan J. Arlett

Night’s endlessness taps at the mind,
my jet lag a constant drip down the windows.
Because I am here for a month, a girl returned
to her mother, I let myself go soft

POETRY / Fiction 2024

Eclipse Over New Mexico

By Megan J. Arlett

Nothing can stop the dogs
from barking, not even

the moon’s new dress.