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Kissing the Long Face of the Greyhound, by Yvonne Zipter

Congratulations to Yvonne for the feature of her poem "Night Noise" on Verse Daily on December 12, 2021.
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​Praise for Kissing the Long Face of the Greyhound

Oh, how I resent the constrictions of blurbese in speaking of such a collection, given its abundantly laudable qualities. One is that rarest of features in our time, what the Augustans called Wit (see, e.g., “The Pencils Speak of Impermanence”). There is also Zipter’s matchless eye for physical detail, ranging from the natural world to conjugal and even canine love. Supreme, however, is the poet’s way with pathos: read, say, the paean to her grandfather Elmer and stay dry-eyed—dare you! Early in the book, the poet complains, “I wish I’d been around when the world was new / and everything needed names," and yet her own naming makes everything new again.
               —Sydney Lea, Poet Laureate of Vermont, 2011-2015

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Yvonne Zipter is the author of the full-length collection The Patience of Metal (Hutchinson House), which was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist, and the chapbook Like Some Bookie God (Pudding House Publications). Her poems have appeared in numerous periodicals over the years, including Poetry, Southern Humanities Review, Calyx, Crab Orchard Review, Bellingham Review, and Spoon River Poetry Review, as well as in several anthologies. She is also the author of two nonfiction books: Diamonds Are a Dyke’s Best Friend (Firebrand Books) and Ransacking the Closet (Spinsters Ink). Her long-running poetry project—selling her published poems in two vending machines in Chicago to raise money for a local arts organization—was recently featured on Chicago’s PBS station. She lives in Illinois.

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  • Forthcoming
    • Notes from the Column of Memory, by Wendy Drexler
    • The Mayapple Forest, by Kim Ports Parsons
    • Vert, by Catherine Staples
    • The Night Divers, by Melanie McCabe
    • Leave Me a Little Want, by Beverly Burch
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      • NEW--light waves, by Kirsten Shu-ying Chen
      • NEW--Horse Not Zebra, by Eric Nelson
      • NEW--Design, by Theresa Burns
      • NEW--House Bird, by Robb Fillman
      • Years Beyond the River, by David Axelrod
      • The Poet & The Architect, by Christine Stewart-Nunez
      • Wind Apples, by Jeff Ewing
      • The Feast Delayed, by Diane LeBlanc
      • These Few Seeds, by Meghan Sterling
      • The Curator's Notes, by Robin Rosen Chang
      • A Cartography of Home, by Hayden Saunier
      • Tell Me How You Got Here, by Emily Franklin
      • Self-Portrait with a Million Dollars, by Patricia Clark
      • Ghost Dogs, by Dion O'Reilly
      • A Kinship with Ash, by Heather Swan
      • Kissing the Long Face of the Greyhound, by Yvonne Zipter
      • Somatic, by Ann Keniston
      • The Honey of Earth, by David Graham
      • Sugar Fix, by Kory Wells
      • The Davids Inside David, by Sarah Wetzel
      • The Bones of Winter Birds, by Ann Fisher-Wirth
      • Strange What Rises, by Gary Whitehead
      • Suspension, by Paige Riehl
      • The Northway, by Lisa Bellamy
      • The Infinite Doctrine of Water, by Michael T. Young
      • Aileron, by Geraldine Connolly
      • No Such Thing As Distance, by Karen Paul Holmes
      • Leaves Surface Like Skin, by Michelle Menting
      • How to Wear This Body, by Hayden Saunier
      • Travel Notes from the River Styx, by Susanna Lang
      • Route 66 and Its Sorrows, by Carolyn Miller
      • Bluewords Greening, by Christine Stewart-Nunez
      • The Canopy, by Patricia Clark
      • Cutting Room, by Jessica de Koninck
      • The Persistence of Longing, by Lynne Knight
      • Confessions of a Captured Angel, by Neil Carpathios
    • Craft Books >
      • NEW--The Strategic Poet
      • The Practicing Poet: Writing Beyond the Basics
      • The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop
      • The Crafty Poet II: A Portable Workshop
    • Anthologies >
      • NEW—A Constellation of Kisses
      • The Book of Donuts, edited by Jason Lee Brown and Shanie Latham
      • The Doll Collection
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