Priscilla Long in conversation with Bethany Reid- Cartographies of Home

"Cartographies of Home is a soulful, erudite, and ultimately playful look at life in flight." —Sandra Beasley, author of Made to Explode: Poems

"In Cartographies of Home Priscilla Long maps memory and longing through poems of lyric tenderness…" —Kelli Russell Agodon, author of Accidental Devotions

Musical and intimate, Priscilla Long’s Cartographies of Home opens with poems centered on a rural childhood and travels to the rebellion in America of the 1960s and 1970s, and onto an old age in the Pacific Northwest. The questions that infuse this collection are: What was home? What is home? Where would home be if I had one? What is home now? What part does love have in home? What part does political life have in the home? What about art?

For Long, home includes America, the environment, the plants and animals, art and cultural history, the childhood home, the brother, the twin sister, the intimate partner. These are luscious poems of grief and praise.

Priscilla Long is author of nine books including two new ones: Cartographies of Home: Poems (MoonPath Press, 2026) and On Spaces and Colors (University of New Mexico Press, 2026). Her work has appeared in numerous publications such as The Hudson Review, The Southern Review, and The American Scholar. Her awards include a National Magazine Award and ten of her essays have been honored as "notable" in various years of Best American Essays. She has an MFA from the University of Washington and grew up on a dairy farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. To learn more, go to www.priscillalong.com.

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