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Erin Murphy is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, most recently Human Resources, Mother as Conjunction: Lyric Essays, Fluent in Blue, Taxonomies, and Assisted Living. Her areas of interest include poetry, creative nonfiction, demi-sonnets (a 7-line form she invented), docupoetics, prose poetry, labor & employment, medical humanities, the writing process, and humor. Her edited anthologies include Creating Nonfiction and Bodies of Truth: Personal Narratives on Illness, Disability, and Medicine, both of which won Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards, and Making Poems. Her latest anthology is The Book of Jobs: Poems About Work.

Her work has appeared in Ecotone, The Georgia Review, Women’s Studies Quarterly, The Best of Brevity,
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Average rating: 4.29 · 383 ratings · 82 reviews · 19 distinct worksSimilar authors
Human Resources: Poems

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Assisted Living

4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions
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Dislocation and Other Theories

4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2008
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Word Problems

3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011
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Science of Desire

4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2004
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Distant Glitter

4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013
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Ancilla

4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014
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Taxonomies

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Fluent in Blue: poems

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Too Much of This World

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Lady Wing Shot
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by Sara Moore Wagner (Goodreads Author)
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Boys Behind Glass by Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
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This is not a poetry book. 𝘊𝘦𝘤𝘪 𝘯'𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘢𝘴 𝘶𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘦𝘪𝘭 𝘥𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘦́𝘴𝘪𝘦. Which is to say, in the tradition of Magritte, 𝘉𝘰𝘺𝘴 𝘉𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘎𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 is and is not what it appears to be. Part poetry, part visual art, part anthropological experiment, part cultural study, ...more
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Boneyard Heresies by Tina Schumann
Boneyard Heresies
by Tina Schumann (Goodreads Author)
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I read this book the week I learned a good friend was moving into assisted living. These lines from “A World of Want” hit me hard: “You think your life will go on/ like this forever—weekly trips/ to the garbage bin, untangling/ the green snake of hos ...more
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Keeping Up by Allison Blevins
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Gotta admit I did not expect a poetry chapbook to open with a quote from Khloe Kardashian. But dang, “I love hard” does sum up this fierce collection by Allison Blevins. I should have suspected from the title -- "Keeping Up” -- that these prose poems ...more
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The Weather of Our Names by Cal Freeman
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What is “verve” in poetry? Asking for a friend. Okay, asking for myself. A poet I admire once described my poetry as having verve, and I kind of knew what he meant…and I kind of didn’t. Yet now I find myself wanting to say Cal Freeman’s poems have ve ...more
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About to Disappear by Robbi Nester
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My son has an ambient music radio show, which is perfect for writing and thinking. I listen to it on headphones at the gym because it drowns out the noise and helps me focus on ideas for poems, teaching—even reviews. Robbi Nester opens her poem “Summ ...more
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Some Distant Pin of Light by Francine Witte
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Sometimes I wonder if a poem set in a particular place and time can transcend nostalgia. And then I read Francine Witte’s “Pizza Hut, 1990” and realize it absolutely can. This is not a poem aimed only at those of us who remember the red booths & chec ...more
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Dirt Songs by Kari Gunter-Seymour
Dirt Songs
by Kari Gunter-Seymour (Goodreads Author)
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Kari Gunter-Seymour, who served 6 years as Poet Laureate of Ohio, is a 9th generation Appalachian which she captures so eloquently in her poem “Because My Ancestors":

…my people, crossing a cratered land,
a pregnant woman, lanky and twanged,
a thick mus
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SOFAR by Elizabeth Bradfield
SOFAR: Poems
by Elizabeth Bradfield (Goodreads Author)
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We think of the ocean as lulling. We design sound machines around the white noise of waves. We sing “My Bonnie” to babies. While most of the poems in SOFAR are set in or near the sea, Elizabeth Bradfield does not rock us gently to sleep with these ly ...more
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Incompleteness Theory by Danèlle LeJeune
Incompleteness Theory
by Danèlle LeJeune (Goodreads Author)
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Those of us born in early summer got a raw deal with our sun sign’s name: Cancer. I mean, there’s no Diabetes or Flesh Eating Bacteria sign. Sheesh. So as a moon child, I was drawn to “Cancer: Daily Horoscope for Summer Solstice,” a poem that toggles ...more
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Lady Wing Shot by Sara Moore Wagner
Lady Wing Shot
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Annie Oakley, we learn, “got the gun down from the rack behind the fireplace when mother was not looking and went out to practice with it.” The rest, as we know, is history — and legend. The reader of “Lady Wing Shot” can imagine Sara Moore Wagner do ...more
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“The novel puts an ad in the personals:
Serial monogamist seeks same.
6x9, 220 pages. Hobbies: candlelit
tension, tasteful gore. Weakness:
occasional flashbacks. Enjoys long
walks on the beach to search for
bodies washing up on shore.”
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