Clare Rossini

Clare Rossini’s first book, an arts-press edition, was The Claudia Poems and was published by the Minnesota Center for the Book Arts in 1996. Her collection, Winter Morning with Crow, was selected by Donald Justice for Akron Poetry Prize and was published by the University of Akron Press in 1997. The book went on to be finalist for a Small Press Book Award and for PEN’s l999 Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. A second book, Lingo, also appeared from the University of Akron Press in 2008. She co-edited The Poetry of Capital, published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2020. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, The New England Review, The Georgia Review, Plume, and Poetry, as well as in textbooks and anthologies, including Poets for the New Century (David Godine) An Introduction to Poetry (ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia, Longman) Poetry Daily, and Best American Poetry. She is Artist-in-Residence at Trinity College in Hartford, where she teaches classes in creative writing and oversees a program that places students in Hartford public school arts classrooms.

A review by Carol Muske-Dukes in The Nation noted that “All forms are refreshed in Rossini’s incomparable vision…they are given the rare, gold brushstrokes of…the compassion that allows us to re-see the world we think we see, as if history might yet find a way to love us.”

Clare lives in West Hartford with her husband and son.