Broken Weekend: & Other Poems

by Liza Libes

Liza Libes is an author and a poet currently residing in New York City. She received her education at Columbia University in English and works in education. Her debut poetry collection, Broken Weekend, captures a distinctly New York experience of heartbreak, longing, and adolescence. It features a compilation of her early poetry written during her college years.

46 pages, Paperback

Published April 29, 2021

About the author

Liza Libes received her B.A. and M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, where she studied the poetry of Sylvia Plath and T.S. Eliot respectively. Shortly after, she founded The Pens and Poison Project to promote the literary arts and to foster appreciation for the written word. Pens and Poison has reached over 150k viewers across the world through engaging YouTube, Instagram, and Spotify content and continues to draw in new literary lovers on a daily basis.

Liza has published three poetry collections, Broken Weekend, Vintage Lovers, and Illicit Kingdom, and is currently at work on her fourth poetry collection. Her poetry, which frequently addresses themes of female identity, Judaism, and desire, has appeared in literary journals such as Gone Lawn, Willows Wept Review, Jewish Women of Words, and Subterranean Blue Poetry. Liza is also the Founder and CEO of Invictus Prep, an inventive college consulting startup that highlights Liza’s aptitude for writing and entrepreneurship. When she is not writing, you can find at her favorite bookstore or opera house, perpetually overdressed.