41 ratings | 0 reviews | avg rating:4.63

Hannah Stephenson’s Followers (15)

Hannah’s Bookshelves

to-read (38)
currently-reading (4)
read (40)
did-not-finish (0)

Hannah’s Friends (62)

Emily Hitchcock

2,020 books | 119 friends

Kyle Minor

351 books | 1,331 friends

Terresa Wellborn

8,693 books | 172 friends

Drew

1,871 books | 25 friends

Nicole

103 books | 841 friends

Ohioana Quarterly

424 books | 141 friends

Sanjay Varma

838 books | 171 friends

Irene Latham

487 books | 134 friends

More friends…

Hannah Stephenson

Goodreads Author

Born

in Columbus, Ohio

Website

http://www.thestorialist.com

Twitter

thestorialist

Genre

Poetry

Member Since

August 2010

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/HannahJStephenson

edit data

Hannah Stephenson is a poet, editor, and instructor living in Columbus, Ohio. She is a poetry blogger for The Huffington Post, and her poems have appeared in publications that include Hobart, Room, Contrary, MAYDAY, qarrtsiluni, and The Nervous Breakdown. Her full-length collection, In the Kettle, the Shriek, is available from Gold Wake Press, and she'd love to share it with you.

Recently, she served as Editor for The Ides of March: An Anthology of of Ohio Poets (Columbus Creative Cooperative), and she looks forward to co-editing The Best of the Midwest Poetry Anthology (with Okla Elliott, for New American Press).

She is the founder of Paging Columbus!, a literary arts monthly event series. If you are a writer in Columbus or swinging through ...more

Combine Editions
Hannah Stephenson’s books

Average rating: 4.33 · 69 ratings · 17 reviews · 6 distinct works

	In the Kettle, the Shriek 4.35 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Poetry from the Midwest 2014 by Okla Elliott (Editor), Hannah Stephenson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nin Andrews (Contributor) 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ides of March 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Poetry from the Midwest 2017 by Okla Elliott (Editor), Hannah Stephenson (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cadence (Wick Chapbook) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Poetry from the Midwest 2019 by Hannah Stephenson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rita Mae Reese (Goodreads Author) (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Hannah Stephenson…

Hannah is Currently Reading

Hannah Stephenson is currently reading

Threats

by Amelia Gray (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Jul 09, 2015 05:59AM

Hannah Stephenson is currently reading

Limber: Essays

by Angela Pelster

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Jul 09, 2015 05:59AM

Hannah Stephenson is currently reading

The Empathy Exams

by Leslie Jamison (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Jul 09, 2015 05:59AM

Quotes by Hannah Stephenson (?)

“If you stand at the edge of the forest
and stare into it
every tree at the edge will blow a little extra
oxygen toward you

It has been proven
Leaves have admitted it

The pines I have known
have been especially candid

One said
that all breath in this world
is roped together

that breathing is
the most ancient language

"Ancient Language”
― Hannah Stephenson

0 likes

recent posts
Hannah’s Groups

¡ POETRY ! — 22535 members — last activity Apr 13, 2026 03:25PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

Hannah’s Friend Comments

No comments have been added yet.