“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
“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
New chapbook: Crow, Again: Poetry Lab Shanghai
Readings:
Sept 27 at 6:30 Reading for Pamenar Press
with Suzanne Doppelt & Laynie Browne
Housman’s Bookshop 5 Caledonia Rd N1 9DY London
Sept 30 Reading with Habib Tengour & Double Change
L’Ours et la Vieille Grille, 9 rue Larrey, 5eme, Paris