Christine Poreba
Poet
ROUGH KNOWLEDGE
Anhinga Press, 2016. Winner, 2014 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry
Author Interview with The Normal School
Anthologies
Then Again: Vintage Photography Reimagined by One Artist and Thirty-One Writers, 2019.
All We Can Hold: a Collection of Poetry on Motherhood. Sage Hill Press, 2016.
Let in the Stars: New Poetry for Children. Manchester Metropolitan University, 2014.
Connections: New York City Bridges in Poetry. P & Q Press, 2012.
Honors
Recipient of Prizes from Palette Poetry, The Florida Review, The Potomac Review and The Atlantic
Awarded a Florida Individual Artist’s Grant, a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize and a Hackney Literary Award
Residencies held at The Hambidge Center, Ragdale Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
Poreba maximizes the effects of visceral language in this fine-tuned debut.
— Publishers Weekly
If you listen carefully you can almost believe the movement within her poems is like breathing: inward-containment, outward-space.
I want such poetry close at hand.
— Peter Everwine, Judge, Philip Levine Prize for Poetry
There is an extraordinary lightness to this collection of poems — it is as if they are floating just above the surface of the earth. Christine Poreba’s debut collection is radiantly lovely.
— Sidney Wade
These poems are love letters to our interior lives, walks through the wilderness of our world, the register of a life lived deeply... This is a hard book to put down.
—Marty Saunders in the Raleigh Review