Design, by Theresa Burns

​Congratulations to Theresa whose poem The Amaryllis was featured on Verse Daily on June 1, 2022.

Praise for Design

These poems touch, caress, ponder, and probe myriad facets of the world’s body, that tangible, earthy presence that sustains and enlivens us. A daughter in her fashion of all-encompassing Walt, Theresa Burns revels in the whole of the tuneful yet muddy yet encouraging yet saddening drama, the great participial thrust Walt was so keen on—living. Carefully wrought, each poem has that this-is-a-leaf-from-the-earth feel, a fullness of feeling that is explicit and—to use one of the poet’s words— evergreen.
          —Baron Wormser, Poet Laureate of Vermont, 2000 - 2006

Theresa Burns is the author of the chapbook Two Train Town. Her poetry, reviews, and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, Prairie Schooner, New Ohio Review, The Cortland Review, Plume, and elsewhere. In 2020, she was runner up for the Poet's Prize from the Journal of New Jersey Poets. An earlier version of Design was a finalist in the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize for 2021 and was shortlisted for the Homebound Publications Poetry Prize. A long-time book editor in New York and Boston, she is the founder of the community reading series Watershed Literary Events and teaches writing in and around New York. She lives with her family in South Orange, New Jersey.

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