Susan Aizenberg

Susan Aizenberg's newest collection of poems is A Walk with Frank O'Hara Poems (University of New Mexico Press, Mary Burritt Christensen Poetry Series, August 2024.) Aizenberg also is the author of four previous collections, First Light (Gibraltar Editions July 2020) Quiet City (BkMk Press, May 2015) Muse (Crab Orchard Poetry Series/SIUP) and Peru (Take Three/2: AGNI New Poets Series/Graywolf) and co-editor, with Erin Belieu, of The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women (Columbia UP). Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Plume, On the Seawall, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Blackbird, Spillway, The Journal, Midwest Quarterly Review, Hunger Mountain, Alaska Quarterly Review, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Spoon River Poetry Review, and have been reprinted in several anthologies, among them In the Tempered Dark: Contemporary Poets Transcending Elegy (Black Lawrence Press) A Constellation of Kisses (Terrapin Books) and Wild and Whirling Words: A Poetic Conversation (Etruscan). Her fellowships and awards include the Nebraska Book Award and Virginia Commonwealth University's Levis Prize for Muse, a Distinguished Artist Fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council, the Mari Sandoz Award from the Nebraska Library Association, and a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner award. Aizenberg teaches in the Iowa Summer Writing Festival and is Professor Emerita of Creative Writing and English at Creighton University.