Arielle Greenberg is the co-author, with Rachel Zucker, ofHome/Birth: A Poemic (1913 Press, 2011); and author ofMy Kafka Century (Action Books, 2005); Given (Verse, 2002); and the chapbooks Shake Her (Dusie Kollektiv, 2009); and Farther Down: Songs from the Allergy Trials(New Michigan, 2003; to be republished by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2012). She is co-editor of three anthologies: with Rachel Zucker, Starting Today: […]
When the baby breaks night with a cry, my first waking thought is Summerisle. Why? Because I am hunting what haunts me? Because I am a giant fool? I’ve always run toward an asp, Medusa’s captive, looking, looking too hard at the sun. An algorithm for how I am burned alive. Also, that night […]
I awake with this question on my tongue: where’s the jigsaw puzzle of the cow and her stillborn calf? Where is it? And whose voice is that talking around our morning house this dawn— a lady’s, a seagull’s, or that of our gone baby son? And what was that incantation my husband uttered […]
Julia Butterfly Hill now older old as me now saying They cut Luna down Now I call her Flattie and in the accompanying photograph a stump coffee table wide and sleek on the forest floor with Julia behind and arrayed with my recently dead mother’s painted gourd ducks […]
Arielle Greenberg talks about trying with her poems to stay “authentic to the messy way [her] mind works and the messy way that life works.”
Arielle Greenberg offers some advice to young writers.