Natalie Tombasco, Author at Protean Magazine

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Natalie Louise Tombasco was selected by for the Best New Poets anthology 2021 by Kaveh Akbar, Copper Nickel’s Editor’s Prize, and as a published finalist for Cutbank Books chapbook contest with her manuscript titled Collective Inventions (2021). She is a PhD candidate at Florida State University and serves as the Interviews Editor of the Southeast Review. Her work can be found in Gulf Coast, Black Warrior Review, Diode Poetry Journal, Cincinnati Review, Plume, Hobart Pulp, Peach Mag, Puerto del Sol, among others.

Poetry

Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights

Poet Natalie Tombasco meditates on Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights as the painting fades into capital’s drab landscapes, a “paradise gone tasteless as a stick of Juicy Fruit.”

Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights