<![CDATA[Susan Parr | Poet

<![CDATA[Susan Parr | Poet - News]]>Sun, 01 Jun 2025 14:44:05 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[More new poems]]>Sun, 01 Jun 2025 20:56:47 GMThttps://www.susanparrpoetry.com/news/more-new-poemsSo happy to have four poems of mine, "Composure," "The Escapement," "Man Alive," and "Devyatyy Val (The Ninth Wave)" appearing in the 2025 issue of Gavialidae. Thanks so much to the editors of this new magazine. Here's a look at the first one, "Composure":

]]><![CDATA["And Wings" and "Extreme Weather" now up at The Waywiser Press]]>Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:37:16 GMThttps://www.susanparrpoetry.com/news/and-wings-and-extreme-weather-now-up-at-the-waywiser-pressMore poems published! Browse the 19th annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize results page to read these two new poems. ]]><![CDATA["The Soft Skin" and "Thalia's Horology"]]>Fri, 30 Jun 2023 03:34:28 GMThttps://www.susanparrpoetry.com/news/the-soft-skin-and-thalias-horologyTwo more new poems are up at the Waywiser Press Anthony Hecht Prize results page, joining a growing list from my recent manuscript, DEVERA. Still more gratitude to Waywiser Press! You can check them out here.]]><![CDATA["The Billions" and "Comforter"]]>Sun, 21 Aug 2022 19:31:58 GMThttps://www.susanparrpoetry.com/news/the-billions-and-comforterI'm happy to have these two poems featured here, as part of the 17th Anthony Hecht Prize page (2022). Many thanks again to The Waywiser Press.]]><![CDATA["Tulip the Revolutionary"]]>Fri, 27 Aug 2021 19:14:53 GMThttps://www.susanparrpoetry.com/news/tulip-the-revolutionaryMy poem "Tulip the Revolutionary" is now up at the Waywiser Press website as part of the 16th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize finalists page. ("Tickled Sync," which originally appeared in POETRY magazine, is also featured.)

Honored that my manuscript DEVERA was selected as a finalist. Thanks to everyone at Waywiser Press.]]><![CDATA[Thank you Burnside Review Press and Poetic Justice Institute]]>Mon, 31 May 2021 17:00:04 GMThttps://www.susanparrpoetry.com/news/thank-you-burnside-review-press-and-poetic-justice-instituteHappy to share that my manuscript, DEVERA, is a finalist for prizes at two more small presses.

One of them is the wonderful Burnside Review Press—more information on the results here (the relevant info is under 4/30/21).

DEVERA also made it to the finals for two prizes that Fordham University’s Poetic Justice Institute offers annually, the POL Prize and the POL Editor’s Prize. For more information about the Poetic Justice Institute or how to enter your manuscript, start here.

I’m grateful to the editors and readers at these presses!]]><![CDATA[Jotted Notes: Yeats and Frost]]>Sun, 09 May 2021 18:18:09 GMThttps://www.susanparrpoetry.com/news/jotted-notes-yeats-and-frostIf we detect in Yeats a disillusionment and frustration, reflecting perhaps some biographical let-downs—like the difficulty starting an Irish national theater or the need to cast off the “coat” of inward wandering that exemplified his early mythic phase—it seems this tone of dejection is a tonic for the poems, giving them an emotional edge, and thus an accessibility. Yeats is struggling, even bitter at times—as a reader, I am a friend to it.

Whereas in Frost there is a comfort to the bones in the regularity and utility of the themes. As a reader, I am amenable to it—but at the same time these themes somehow free up a deep emotionalism that I don’t expect, and find almost overwhelming, perhaps in part because of a surging confidence behind the poems.

Both however, can confound—Yeats with language (like Stevens), Frost with concept.]]><![CDATA[Drowning Benches]]>Tue, 06 Apr 2021 18:28:11 GMThttps://www.susanparrpoetry.com/news/drowning-benches

]]><![CDATA[Interpretive Signs]]>Tue, 16 Feb 2021 04:18:33 GMThttps://www.susanparrpoetry.com/news/2-interpretive-signsOne of the weirdest ones I've seen:

One of my favorites:

]]><![CDATA[9/26/2020]]>Sun, 27 Sep 2020 05:57:09 GMThttps://www.susanparrpoetry.com/news/9262020

Abandoned Sears and Roebuck building. Raymond, SW Washington, August 2020

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