World Without, by Courtney Bambrick

Poetry, chapbook, 20 pages, from Bottlecap Features. World Without asks readers to consider their relationships to the things that make our reality real. This collection suggests a series of alternative realities, each of which might test our ability to accept change. The worlds without hands, mirrors, museums, doctors, etc. presented in these short poems are strange, but also familiar. In each scenario, we consider the small and significant things that make our world familiar—and the deletions that make it unfamiliar. Courtney Bambrick was poetry editor at Philadelphia Stories 2010-2024. She teaches writing at Thomas Jefferson University’s East Falls campus in Philadelphia. Her own poems appear in Landlocked Magazine, Pinhole Poetry, Thimble, SWWIM Everyday, New York Quarterly, Invisible City, and more.