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August 30, 2016
"An Infant Bit of Light": Interviewed by The Collagist.
July 25, 2016
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One of my poems, titled "My Father Sings Like a Crow" is forthcoming in The New Yorker.
March 25, 2016
Poetry Society of America interviews The Paris-American, here.
July 20, 2014
A poem of mine called "My Father Named the Trees" has been selected by Dorianne Laux for the Best New Poets 2014 Anthology.
August 15, 2012
Kenneth Nichols reviews NER's 33:1 issue on NewPages which includes an individual review of my poem, "Father, Son":
"In his poem “Father, Son,” C. L. O'Dell considers that special relationship in something of a new light. O’Dell paints with words and captures the sad moment in which the boy realizes his father is not, in fact, a lower order of god. While completing a project by pouring concrete, the narrator of the poem, the excited son, points out that “Romans used volcanic ash, and lime.” The father says that, “things aren’t supposed to last forever,” a truth that causes one of the first of many emotional wounds that will change the young narrator’s life."
"In his poem “Father, Son,” C. L. O'Dell considers that special relationship in something of a new light. O’Dell paints with words and captures the sad moment in which the boy realizes his father is not, in fact, a lower order of god. While completing a project by pouring concrete, the narrator of the poem, the excited son, points out that “Romans used volcanic ash, and lime.” The father says that, “things aren’t supposed to last forever,” a truth that causes one of the first of many emotional wounds that will change the young narrator’s life."
You set silence before me like shallow seeds, led me into disappearance.
—from "My Father Named the Trees"