“Swensen’s poetry embodies a form of poetic, political, and ontological guerrilla warfare—
it embodies a commitment to other possibilities of thought, of language, of the world.
—Jean-Philippe Cazier in Diacritik
New poems in Tod Edgerton’s great new What Most Vividly
New chapbook: Crow, Again: Poetry Lab Shanghai
“Swensen’s poetry documents a penetrating ‘intellectus’—light of the mind—by turns fragile, incandescent, transcendent.”
—Anne Waldman
"Her poetry is like Dickinson without the syncopation, but with something of Traherne's sublime orderliness: numinous, in fact."
—John Ashbery, The Times Literary Supplement
"It is poetry that honestly admits the inchoate, affirms mystery, and responds to successive readings: it is alive."
—The Volta
Just published: Veer (Alice James Books)
"In Veer, deer bloom, irises stampede, and the secret language of dust motes is unlocked by animal hum.”
—Wroxy, Plethora, a Literati Poetry Newsletter
Commentary on Veer
Poem & essay at the PSA “In Their Own Words” site
Library Journal starred review
Interview with 48 Hills
Article in The Pacific Sun
Poetry Daily short essay and a poem from Veer
Only Poems Interview & poems from Veer
Readings:
Oct 22 at 6:30 pm with Laura Mullen at the American University of Paris, 6 rue Combes, 75007, Paris
Nov 5 at 7pm with Biswamit Dwibedy at the Red Wheelbarrow, 11 Rue de Médicis, 75006, Paris
Nov 15 & 16 two readings with Biswamit Dwibedy in Madrid; details soon
Nov 19 reading for Etats du texte at Forcalquier near Marseille
Nov 20 reading for Cris poétiques at the Vélo-Théâtre d'art in Lubéron with Gilles Weinzaepflen
Dec 3 with Paul Hoover, reading at the Mill Valley Library, Mill Valley, CA
Dec 6 4pm at a bookstore in SF for Tod Edgerton’s new review What Most Vividly—details to come
Dec 9 at the Rhode Island School of Design—details to come