One Lightning Bug ~ Anna Lena Phillips Bell
One Lightning Bug ~ Anna Lena Phillips Bell
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A limited edition letterpress printed booklet featuring a poem by Anna Lena Phillips Bell. The text is a wondrous, searching dialogue between human and lightning bug, an almost-echo poem illuminating the gleam and gift of fireflies’ lives and the seemingly irreparable loss of their presence in our own. St Brigid Press launches this booklet in celebration of Bell’s full-length collection, Might Could (Waywiser Books, 2026), winner of the 2026 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize.
Text is hand-set in the Bembo family of metal types (cast by Michael & Winifred Bixler, Skaneateles, NY).
Letterpress printed in 3 colors with oil-base inks on white Mohawk Double-Crown paper.
Hand-sewn with linen thread into jackets of Colorplan paper.
Size: 5.25” x 3.5” and 14 pages.
Edition of 144 numbered books.
Anna Lena Phillips Bell is the author of Might Could, winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, published March 2026 by Waywiser Books. She is also the author of Ornament, winner of the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, and the chapbook Smaller Songs, from St Brigid Press. Her work appears in journals including the Southern Review, Orion, Electric Literature, Evergreen Review, and 32 Poems. The recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship in literature and the Winter Anthology Award, she has served since 2013 as the editor of Ecotone. She is an associate professor in the creative writing department at UNC Wilmington, and calls ungendered Appalachian square dances in what’s now called North Carolina and beyond.
Author photo by Anastasiia Sliepova.
