Press
Video
Poets on Poets, from the Academy of American Poets
Writer. Mother. Monster. Interview
Tuesdays with BOA, from Writers & Books
Audio
Desire As Medicine Podcast
Elana joins hosts Brenda and Catherine to unravel the interplay of desire within the landscapes of life, artistic pursuits and parenting. This heartfelt conversation meanders through the spiritual practice of desire and its vital role in shaping our creative fire, all while balancing the intense responsibilities that come with life and motherhood.
Electric Poetry
Host Kelsey May welcomes diverse poets from across west Michigan and beyond into the WYCE studio to showcase their work and discuss writing, the creative process, and poetry as lived experience.
Walk Through Grief With Grace Podcast
How do you deal with the grief of losing someone who is still alive? In this episode, poet Elana Bell shares the loss of her mom, not to death, but to Parkinson's disease. She shares poems that detail the journey of grieving who her mom once was as she was becoming a mother herself.
School For Mothers Podcast
Elana shares on the experience of supporting her mother’s depression and how that helped their relationship and seeing the individuality of her mother and herself.
Articles & Reviews
The 15-year evolution of my poem “Dropping My Mother Off at
the Electro-Convulsive Therapy Ward” from Draft 1 to Final Version.
READ @ UNDERBELLY
A Space of Sanctuary: Mother Country by Elana Bell
READ @ THE RUMPUS
PBS: Poem from Eyes, Stones featured on the PBS newshour.
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A Poet’s Insight to the Stark Contrast of What We Expect vs. What We Experience Postpartum
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Jessica Gigot reviews Elana Bell’s Mother Country
READ @ TINDERBOX POETRY JOURNAL
Honoring the Mother-Artist
READ @ URBAN SENTINEL
Living on That Land: A Conversation with Elana Bell part of our Emerging Poets Interview Series.
READ @ AGNI
Renowned poet Fanny Howe discusses Elana's book, Eyes, Stones.
READ @ AMERICAN POETRY
Elana Bell on the Whitman Award.
READ @ POETS AND WRITERS
Poets In Unexpected Places featured in the New York Times.
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