Corey Van Landingham

One of this year’s panels is deliberately old school. It’s called Signed, Sealed, Delivered, and it’s all about letter writing. The purposeful culture of letter-writing—the private thrill of drafting, posting and receiving, and opening letters—has largely been subsumed by instantaneous (and impulsive) digital means. This week we’ll be introducing you to the writers and poets who will be coming to Unbound in April to discuss how letter-writing still holds a special cultural and social significance for us in the age of the instant message. First up, we’re thrilled to welcome poet Corey Van Landingham!

Corey Van Landingham is the author of Antidote (The Ohio State University Press, 2013) and Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens (Tupelo, 2022). She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Boston Review, The Missouri Review, and The New Yorker. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Illinois.