‘The Varied Field Before Us’ by Dale Going and Marie Carbone


Dale Going’s new collection, The Beautiful Language of Our Disaster, is forthcoming as winner of the 2024 Codhill Press Guest Editor Award, as is For the Anniversaries of All Loving Kinds of Meetings, a chapbook from Albion Books. Her previous collections are The View They Arrange (Kelsey St. Press) and As/of the Whole (SFSU Award, selected by Brenda Hillman). Her work has been supported by Fund for Poetry, California Arts Council, and Residency Fellowships at Yaddo, Watermill Center, Wedding Cake House and Djerassi. Recent poems appear or are forthcoming in Annulet, Interim, digital vestiges (Black Sun Lit), New American Writing, VOLT, and elsewhere. She lives in Manhattan. https://linktr.ee/dalegoing.


Marie Carbone is a multi-disciplinary visual artist and musician. Her collage art has appeared in exhibitions at the Berkeley Art Center and other San Francisco Bay Area venues, in literary journals (VOLT, Five Fingers Review, ROOMS, Equinox, LandLocked, Milk Press, Sea to Sky Review, Star 82 Review, Wild Roof Journal), book covers, broadsides, artists’ books, and projections for poetry readings and poets’ theater performances. As a classical pianist, harpsichordist and music educator, her particular interest is the music of women composers. She has composed and performed sound tracks and soundscapes for film, theater, museum exhibitions, modern dance and ballet. She lives in Sausalito, CA.