Exclusions & Limitations

by Jennifer O'Grady

Parenthood with its complexities and consequences is a major theme of Jennifer O'Grady's daring second collection of poems. Inventive and exquisitely crafted, these poems mine marriage, infertility, and motherhood, along with politics, art, religion and the domestic and natural worlds to probe the meaning of responsibility and the many aspects of love. Poems within have won awards and appeared in Poetry, The New Republic, Poetry Daily, Southwest Review, Green Mountains Review, Verse Daily, Salamander, Tar River Poetry, Seneca Review and many other places.

81 pages, Paperback

Published March 1, 2018

About the author

Jennifer O’Grady is an award-winning poet and playwright. She is the author of the poetry collections WHITE (Mid-List Press First Series Award for Poetry) and EXCLUSIONS & LIMITATIONS (Plume Editions/MatHat Press, 2018). Her poems have appeared in numerous places including Harper’s, The New Republic, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Writer’s Almanac, Poetry Daily, The Yale Review and American Poetry: The Next Generation, to name a few. Her plays have won the Henley Rose Award, the NEWvember Festival Dublin and MTWorks NEWborn Festival awards and Heartland Theatre's 10-Minute Play Contest and are published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays, The Best Women's Stage Monologues, and Best Contemporary Monologues for Women anthologies. Born and raised in New York City, she holds a BA from Vassar, where she won awards for her writing, and an MFA from Columbia University. She lives near New York City with her husband, son, and daughter, two dogs, two cats, and a rabbit.