News and Events
The latest news and events about Beth's current work
News
BETH’S NEW BOOK CEASE is out now. Read poems from CEASE, winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Virginia Quarterly Review Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry, in BOMB, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Rumpus, Volta and a bit about the project at World Literature Today: All We are Saying: Protest, Poetry and Twitter’s White Bird.
Listen to Beth read the opening poem, “wall,” and other poems on Soundcloud.
ART OF THE EXTREME: Read a dialogue about CEASE at APR, an essay on the art of the extreme in The AWP Writers’ Chronicle and another on Sex, Drugs, Rock n’ Roll and Mystical Poets up at Lithub.
MUSIC: listen to Do Not Rise set for piano and mezzo-soprano by composer and cellist Daniel Zlatkin!!
Selections from a new multi-genre project, GOLDEN, are out now in American Poetry Review, Guernica, The New Yorker, Poetry, VQR and World Literature Today. Read Joyelle McSweeney on Beth’s prose at Black Warrior Review and Melissa Febos on Beth’s genre-defying nonfiction at The Sewanee Review. New poems in Poetry and Tin House!
2020 Events
3/5/20 AWP San Antonio, Poetry of the Extreme and the Elemental
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CLICK ON CONTACT TO BOOK/you can find older events archived on media page
Beth
Beth Bachmann teaches in the MFA program at Vanderbilt University and splits her time between Nashville and NYC.
Temper
Beth Bachmann’s first book,Temper (2009), won the AWP Donald Hall Poetry prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Do Not Rise
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