ANN DEVILBISS

Black and white photo of a woman with dark hair standing outdoors with trees in the background.

Ann DeVilbiss (she/her) has poems published in Appalachian Review, Columbia Journal, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere. She has received support from the Kentucky Arts Council and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. A founding member of the Sublimity City poetry collective, she lives and works in Louisville.

Book cover titled 'The Red Chorus' by Ann DeVilbiss, with an illustration of three women in patterned clothing and dark hair.

THE RED CHORUS

Both ritual & incantation, “The Red Chorus” invites readers into a liminal space where language makes the impossible real. In this esoteric collection, a chorus of voices rises, each distinct, yet resonating together in a polyphonic exploration of the self, the world, & the spaces in between. Eschewing the singular gaze, this book is a multi-voiced landscape where identities shift, overlap, & blur, revealing the transformative power of language itself.

Here, words aren’t just vessels for meaning, but incantations conjuring worlds from the void, shaping reality through the alchemy of poetic craft. Drawing on the sensibilities of a hedge witch, Ann treats creation as an act of everyday magic, tracing the threads between what is spoken & unspoken, & that which exists in the charged silence between.

IF THEY FEAR WITCHES BE THE WITCH

IF THEY FEAR WITCHES BE THE WITCH