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Emma Eisler

EMMA EISLER (she/her) is a junior English major at Cornell University with a concentration in poetry. She is Editor in Chief of the university magazine, Kitsch, as well as a columnist for the independent newspaper, The Cornell Sun. She is a recipient of the Cornell University Dorothy Sugarman Undergraduate Prize for poetry and has been published in magazines including The Smart Set, Allegory Ridge, Cathexis Northwest Press, Prometheus Dreaming, Storm of Blue, Blackheart Magazine, SWITCHBACK, and Beyond Words. She was also a semi-finalist in Digging Through the Fat’s 2021 chapbook contest. Emma plans to continue pursuing a career in writing after she graduates.

as above (of course) so below
by Emma Eisler

July 19, 2021 Contributed By: Emma Eisler

Basement Party

This poem was nominated for The Best of the Net. foxtail flower, cunning loveliness, leave me to eat until i’m full, fill up on bitterness. before it is our house it is – to me – one basement, a roving plane of parties where i drink to stomachache. i don’t know now if i ever […]

Filed Under: Featured Content, Poetry Posted On: July 19, 2021

Magnolia  tattoo—
by Emma Eisler

July 19, 2021 Contributed By: Emma Eisler

died  May  2020.  Had  been  withering  already  from  my  ribs;  trampled  petals, leaves rubbed to mush. Your hand [a hand is not a metaphor, is not creation] tugging root from marrow,  apology  from  tongue.  Once,  I  got  very  high  in  a  room  I  don’t  like  to think  about,  and every object shook off its dust […]

Filed Under: Featured Content, Poetry Posted On: July 19, 2021

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