Full-length Collections
Paragones - (In process, 2018–) Poems from the collection include “Agency,” which appears in the anthology Braving the Body (Small Harbor Publishing, 2024); “The Couple,” published by The Common; “Francesca Woodman (1958-1981)” which appeared in SWWIM; “through the pinhole, watching” which was included in Betsy Kenyon’s monograph SLUMBER; and “(up to now separately)” which won a 2023 Editor’s Prize from CRAFT Literary,
We Call Them Beautiful (Diode Editions, 2019) - Winner 2018 Diode Editions Prize | Finalist 2018 Beverly Prize and 2017 Sexton Prize from Eyewear Publishing; 2017 BOAAT Poetry Prize (Dean Young, judge); 2017 Autumn House Poetry Prize (Kimoko Hahn, judge), 2017 Shelterbelt Poetry Prize (Ada Limón, judge); Vassar Miller Prize (2017, Rosanna Warren, judge; 2016, AE Stallings, judge; 2015, Geoffrey Brock, judge; 2011, Lisa Russ Spaar, judge; 2010, J.D. McClatchy, judge); 2014 Kore Press Open Reading; and 2013 Philip Levine Poetry Book Prize (Philip Levine, judge)
CHAPBOOK
The Hasp Tongue (dancing girl press, 2014)
RESIDENCIES
Can Serrat Residency for Paragones (2025)
Bethany Art Community Poetry Residency for Paragones (2025)
Hewnoaks Residency for Paragones (2024)
Betsy Hotel Writer’s Room Residency for Paragones (2023)
Desert Rat Residency Poetry Prize - Finalist (2023)
NYU Gallatin WetLab Poet in Residence on Governors Island (2022)
Works on Water Poet in Residence on Governors Island (2021)
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Poet in Residence, Governors Island COVID-19 Response Residency Program (2021)
Prague Summer Program (2004)
Vermont Studio Center Residency (2003)
TEACHING
2025 Poets House, “City Poet: Writing Ekphrasis,” New York, New York
2022 NYU Gallatin, “City Poet,” New York, New York
2020 Catapult, New York, New York
2019 Poets House, “You Are Here: Poems of Place,” New York, New York; Catapult, New York, New York
2018–2019 Adjunct Writing Program Faculty, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2009–2010 English Department Faculty, Bard High School Early College Queens, Long Island City, New York; Writing & Thinking Workshop, Bard High School Early College Queens, Long Island City, New York
2005–2007 Graduate Student Instructor, Poetry, Fiction, Composition, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
collaborations
2023 - In May 2023, composer Herschel Garfein released The Layers, a full-length classical music album that includes the “Three Rides” song cycle along with poems inspired by the work of Stanley Kunitz and Jane Kenyon.
2022 - For photographer Betsy Kenyon’s monograph SLUMBER, I wrote “through the pinhole, watching,” an ekphrastic poem that accompanies Kenyon’s images.
2021 “A Tuesday Spot,” a song created by Herschel Garfein based on a poem of the same name, which had its world premiere on December 3, 2021, at the First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn, 119 Pierrepont St, Brooklyn, NY 11201, with performances by Marnie Breckenridge, soprano; Keith Phares, baritone, and Dimitri Dover, piano.
2019 "Three Rides," a song cycle created by Herschel Garfein from the poems "The Cyclone," "Black Ice," and "The Mechanism of Pleasure," to be performed as a part of the 2018-2019 New Voices series at Brooklyn Art Song Society, in June 2019, featuring soprano Marnie Breckenridge, cellist Dave Eggar, and pianist Dimitri Dover.
2017 “Gauntlet,” closing poem for 2017 Irish Arts Center 2017 St. Pat's for All celebration and fundraiser, read by Florencia Lozano, New York, New York
2017 “The Cyclone,” adapted for for soprano, cello, and piano by composer Herschel Garfein, a commission for New York City’s 2017 Five Boroughs Music Festival, New York, New York
2015 “Off the Roosie,” performed at the Emotive Fruition show at Botanic Lab by Lameece Issaq; “The Table,” “Osmium,” and “Molybdenum” performed at the June 2015 event Emotive Fruition show “Periodic Table of Elements,” directed by Thomas Dooley, and in collaboration with NPR’s Radiolab 2015 “Off the Roosie” and “Palookaville” performed by Lucas Hall and Pearl Sun, respectively, at the April 2015 event Emotive Fruition, directed by Thomas Dooley
2010 “Meat Cove, Cape Breton” selected for the NewLights Press Broadside Series; Embroidered text – Collaboration with artist Iviva Olenick
Awards and Honors
2025
Can Serrat Residency for Paragones
Bethany Arts Community Poetry Residency for Paragones
2024
Hewnoaks Residency for Paragones
2023
Betsy Hotel Writer’s Room Residency for Paragones
Flushing Town Hall Arts Grant for QUEENSBOUND
CRAFT Literary Editor’s Prize for “(up to now separately)’
Desert Rat Poetry Prize - Finalist
2022
Sustainable Arts Foundation, 2022 Finalist in Poetry
Poet in Residence, NYU Gallatin WetLab on Governors Island
2021
Poet-in-Residence, Works on Water, Governors Island, Final project: Readings on Water, poems placed around WoWHaus studio in Nolan 5B
Participant, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Governors Island COVID-19 Response Residency Program
2020
Queens Council on the Arts, New Work Grant, Acadia Project
Queens Council on the Arts, Art Fund Grant, QUEENSBOUND
2018
Winner, Diode Editions 2018 book prize, We Call Them Beautiful
2016
Pushcart Prize nomination for “Fear Not, Mary”
2015
“Fear Not, Mary,” selected by Kevin Prufer for the 2015 Fugue Poetry Prize
Finalist, Queens Poet Laureateship
2013
“The Wild Dogs,” Table 4 Writers Foundation Grant
2012
“We Leg It Up the Hillside to Kill My Darlings,” Finalist, Gigantic Sequins First Annual Poetry Contest, judged by Nick Flynn
“The Wild Dogs,” Finalist, 2012 Sidney Prize, judged by Richard Nash
2011
“First Map,” Honorary Mention, Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition, Munster Literature Centre, Cork, Ireland, judged by Leanne O’Sullivan
2007
“The Hasp Tongue,” Academy of American Poets Prize
Education
MFA in Poetry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Colby Fellowship. Thesis: The Hello Girls, poems, Laura Kasischke and Marie Howe, advisors - 2006 Farrar Playwriting Award for “Lessons in Higher English;” Meader Family Poetry Award for “Learn By Going;” 2005 Colby Fellowship in Poetry, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
BA in English Literature, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia Presidential Scholar, Hope Scholarship recipient, honors
University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, Study Abroad
University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Anthologies
Braving the Body (Small Harbor Publishing, 2024); Edited by Nicole Callihan, Pichchenda Bao, and Jennifer Franklin (Editor), “Agency”
Who Will Speak for America? (Temple University Press, 2018); Edited by Stephanie Feldman and Nathaniel Popkin, "When We See"
Resist Much Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance, (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2017), Edited by Michael Boughn and Kent Johnson, “Gauntlet,” and “Against”
All We Can Hold: A Collection of Poetry on Motherhood (Sage Hill Press, 2016), Edited by Laura Stott, “Up” and “Another Brightness”
Oh, Baby! True Stories About Conception, Adoption, Surrogacy, Pregnancy, Labor, and Love, (Creative Nonfiction, 2015), Edited by Lee Gutkind and Alice Bradley, essay: “Up and Above Us”