Lacey Beamer

I am currently an undergraduate student of the Honors Program at Christopher Newport University in Virginia. I am majoring in English with a concentration in writing. I also plan to minor in Literature and Psychology. I have loved reading since I was very small, and nothing could make me happier than finding a career somehow involved in the field of publishing. My work has previously been published in Colonial Forge High School's literary magazine, Molten Art.

Songs for Trying: “Losing Interest,” “Winter Blues” and “The Impermanence of Sinking”

The metaphors of water and sun run through Beamer’s poetry, as if pool water and the smell of chlorine can “block the rest of the world,” and the sun’s sinking in the sea at night isn’t the same as drowning. So too “sunlight becomes a hard, palpable thing,” a corrective to her “winter blues.”
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