Susanna Childress Events
“Words are supposed to do a little work, too. Or not-words. Or working-it-out-words, pressed-together-lyrically-for-a-later-date words. ”
"Words are supposed to do a little work, too. Or not-words. Or working-it-out-words, pressed-together-lyrically-for-a-later-date words." from Retroactive Empathy: A Haunting
Susanna's Author Collection is now available at Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/523662. It will show up at other vendors such as Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Overdrive, Oyster, PageFoundry, Scribd, txtr, and more over the next several days.
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"One thing I’ve always been drawn to in Susanna Childress’s work—work I’ve had the pleasure of reading since we were in graduate workshops together over ten years ago—is her talent in the art of sentence-making, in modulating the subtleties of tone and voice by way of an innate syntactical grace. And speaking of grace: I need these poems. They teach me to live. And I need this poet, whose intellect is so large and yet whose instinct is to turn away from rhetoric and toward the more difficult task of honoring deeply the most complicated, soiled, soul-muddling parts of this experience of living. I need every single one of these poems here, for each in its own way offers me the clarity of unknowing, of never knowing. And that is quite enough for me."
from Carrie Fountain, Michener Fellow, writer-in-residence at St. Edward’s University, and award-winning poet
"Susanna Childress’s poems pulse with the feverish ebb of life, capturing the ordinary magic that lingers in its algid wake."
from Sean Redmond, Editor in Chief at fields magazine
Check out our first author, Susanna Childress, getting some fanfare at Columbia Poetry Review for being selected by Sherman Alexie for inclusion in Best American Poetry 2015. Go here to read the piece, as well as to see another interview with Susanna. http://columbiapoetryreviews.colum.edu/the-stream/14120775
