Suzanne Cleary’s Beauty Mark was published by BkMk Press in 2013, as winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry. Her previous poetry books are Trick Pear (2007) and Keeping Time (2002), both published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. Winner of a Pushcart Prize, her poems appear in journals including Georgia Review, New Ohio Review, The Atlantic, Poetry […]
for David Anyone born anywhere near my home town […]
How does, how does, how does it work so, little valve stretching messily open, as wide as possible, all directions at once, sucking air, sucking blood, sucking air-in-blood, how? On the screen I see the part of me that always loves my life, never tires of what it takes, this in-and-out, this open-and-shut in the […]
We shall all be changed. Handel’s Messiah, I Corinthians 15:51 The broad aluminum expanse of you back corners rounded like a horse’s rump front corners rounded like a horse’s rump your narrow back door with its […]
There is one on nearly every shelf of the antique shop, and on walls, on tables, under tables: the tin, the china, the paper maché bluebirds and jays and chickadees, the eagles carved out of cherry or walnut. It is as if, in a century of work and sickness, the light dim, the food scant […]
My husband and his first wife once sang Handel’s Messiah at Carnegie Hall, with 300 others who also had read the ad for the sing-along, and this is why I know the word glory is not sung by the chorus, although that is what we hear. In fact, the choir sings glaw-dee, glaw-dee while it […]
Suzanne Cleary, author of the collection Keeping Time (2002), and the forthcoming Trick Pear (2007, both published by Carnegie Mellon University Press), talks about her writing process.
Suzanne Cleary, author of the collection Keeping Time (2002), and the forthcoming Trick Pear (2007, both published by Carnegie Mellon University Press), talks about how she “tricked” herself into writing her poem, Anyways.