Suzanne Frischkorn's Blog

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Much gratitude to Jami Macarty for this beautiful, fierce review of WHIPSAW, and to NewPages for featuring it! Here is a snip--"Bad things happen to girls and women in the forest, but not in these poems. “This is not a fairy tale.” Hurrah! Instead, the forest offers “detail of light and shade,” where our speaker takes solace among trees, and where “Like Thoreau alone // in the distant woods [she

 “Daughters and birdsong. Threat and hope. Intuition and resistance. Power.Suzanne Frischkorn’s Whipsaw is an extraordinary collection from an accomplished poet who deftly guides the reader through an America full of beauty and danger, an America all the more navigable thanks to these poems. Every poem is a kind of letter to America, intricately crafted, brazen and brilliant. Read this

 “These are poems of survival and risk, of finding balance in a society that often seems as though it thrives on chaos.” Grateful for this astute, and gorgeous review of WHIPSAW by Amanda Auchter and much gratitude to Rhino as well!

New interview up at the Anhinga Press Instagram account! I loved speaking with Anhinga Press about WHIPSAW. Here is a snip if you aren't on Instagram --

Many thanks to William Woolfitt for inviting me to participate in his wonderful interview series Speaking of Marvels! I answered questions on overcoming inhibition, my writing space, revision, WHIPSAW, and what I’m working on now.

I’m so thrilled to share the cover of WHIPSAW coming from Anhinga Press in April. Pre-order HERE Free Shipping til 4/20/24 • At checkout enter code WHIP2024  My gratitude to acclaimed sculptor David Altmejd for gracing the cover with a detail from his powerful sculpture “Le Trou” and many thanks to the David Kordansky Gallery. Thank you to artist and poet Karla Van Vliet for

Much gratitude to Brittany Torres Rivera for this lovely review of Fixed Star and to Letras Latinas for featuring it on A House of Our Own!

Hudson Valley Writers Center, The Haibun: a generative poetry workshop with Suzanne Frischkorn, via Zoom, Saturday, October 21, 12:30PM – 2:30PM. Register here

I’m honored! Many thanks to the editors at The Westchester Review for nominating my poem, “Elegy for the Chicks in Martins Ferry, Ohio” for the Best of the Net anthology.  This poem is in my book WHIPSAW forthcoming in 2024 from Anhinga Press. Congrats to the other nominees as well!