Poetry by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

December 2, 2014 • 6 x 9 • 168 Pages • 978-1-56689-375-6

An award-winning poet considers loss, memory, and the fate of the planet.

“Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s fierce new poetry collection, Streaming, takes her always brave and startling sonics into new narrative spaces. These poems are full of needful improvisation and piano runs. Hedge Coke makes music from tornados and glyphs, from cranes spiraling overhead, and from the grumbling stomachs of hungry children. She sings these stories because she has to and because we need her to. And when the speaker in ‘Sudden Where’ says ‘maybe we’d find something magnificent, give it up to make somebody happy,’ it is clear that in these urgent poems, and in this necessary book, we’ve found both the magnificent and the unforgettable.” —Adrian Matejka, author of The Big Smoke

About the Author

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s books include Streaming, Burn, Blood Run, Off-Season City Pipe, Dog Road Woman, Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas, Effigies, Effigies II, and Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer. Awards include an American Book Award, a King-Chavez-Parks Award, 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award NWCA, 2016 Pen Southwest Award in Poetry, the 2016 Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellowship, and 2017 Tulsa Artist Fellowship. She is a contributing editor for Black Renaissance Noire and Kore Press, directs the annual Literary Sandhill CraneFest & Retreat and is a Zoeglossia board member. A founding faculty of the VCFA MFA in Writing & Publishing program, Hedge Coke is a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California at Riverside. She came from working fields, factories, and waters and is currently at work directing a climate change documentary.

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Praise for Streaming

Winner of the Library of Congress Witter Bynner Poetry Fellowship, awarded by US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, 2016

Winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award, NWCA, 2015

Winner of the Wordcrafter of the Year Award, Wordcraft Circle, 2015

Winner of the PEN Southwest Award for Poetry, 2015

Bronze Medalist Independent Publisher Book Awards for Poetry, 2015



Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award, 2015



Finalist: 2015 Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal for most thought-provoking book.


Longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award


Featured Selection in AIROS National Poetry Month Feature, 2015

Split This Rock recommended poetry books of 2014


Teaching for Change Best Books Recommended, 2014