The Wall Where You Leave Me

Inch #51 (2022), Bull City Press​

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The Wall Where You Leave Me from North Carolinian poet Martina Litty is a collection of compact, breathless poems that ask: what does it mean, that we are meant to live alone? What does it mean, that to accept love means to invite grief? Poems range from ekphrastic pieces to golden shovels and ghazals, as the speaker navigates her Southern pastoral surroundings while grappling with sexuality, loneliness, risk, loss, and love.

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More Poetry

 

2025

• "Dragon Park Rebuild" — Poetry South, forthcoming

• "it is december"— composer Indigo Knecht, lyricist Martina Litty

• "shoulder to shoulder"— composer Indigo Knecht, lyricist Martina Litty​

  • New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF 25), June 22nd–28th

  • Missouri Experimental Sonic Arts Festival (MOXsonic 25), March 19th–21st

  • Contemporary Art Music Project (CAMP), February 7th

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2024

• "At the Tattoo Shop," "Don't Fight While I'm in the Shower," and "It is December" — The Underway Review, December 3rd

• "shoulder to shoulder"— composer Indigo Knecht, lyricist Martina Litty​

  • Jacksonville Electroacoustic Music Festival (jemFEST 24), November 2nd

  • CLICK FEST 24, September 20th

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2023

• "Shoulder to Shoulder" — Get Bent, Bending Genres, February

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2022

• "We Melt the Cage They Built Around the World" — Poetry Daily, August 31st

• The Wall Where You Leave Me — Inch #51 (June 28th), Bull City Press

• "Dear Robot" — Utopia Science Fiction Magazine April/May 2022

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2021

• "Doppelgänger" — Grimsy Volume 2

• "Shoulder to Shoulder" and "Two Horses at Night" — Pembroke Magazine Issue 53

• "Child Climbing" — 50 Haikus Issue 17

• "We Melt the Cage They Built Around the World" — NonBinary Review Issue 23: Apocalypse

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2020

• "Bite" — Grimsy Volume 1

• "Goodbye for You" — Q for Quarantine, April 14th

• "Lover, You are the Vampire" — Arsenika Volume 7

• "Rinse" — Slippage Lit Issue 4

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2019

• "Curie's List" — Charge Magazine Issue 3

• "Ratatosk" — Rat's Ass Review Winter 2019 Issue

• "Goodbye for You" — Multitudes, the 2019 anthology of the International Writing Program Summer Institute

• "I Think God is Sitting" — semicolon Issue 2

  • Cited by Sandip Baidya, "What is it with poets and Gods"

• "My Heart is in Bensheim" — Poets Reading the News, May 2nd

• "Things on the Side of the Road" — High Shelf Press Issue 4

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2018

• "It's Not Like Falling" — Torch Issue 1

• "Rest" — Dean Elinor F. Foster Poetry/Short Prose Contest, 2nd Place in High School Category

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2017

• "Loss" — Dean Elinor F. Foster Poetry/Short Prose Contest, 1st Place in High School Category

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2015

• Student Poet in Witness: Appalachia to Hatteras, the Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poets and Student Poets Series

• "Dear Lily" — Dean Elinor F. Foster Poetry/Short Prose Contest, 2nd Place in High School Category

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