Two Museums

by Paula Cisewski

Poetry chapbook

22 pages, Unbound

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Paula Cisewski's sixth collection of poems, The Becoming Game, was published by Hanging Loose Press in June 2025. She is also the author of Ceremonies for No Repair (Beauty School Editions, LLC), Quitter​, winner of Diode Editions' Book Prize, The Threatened Everything, Ghost Fargo (selected by Franz Wright for the Nightboat Poetry Prize), Upon Arrival, and several chapbooks, including the lyric prose Misplaced Sinister. She has been awarded fellowships from organizations including the Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, The Oberholtzer Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Her poems and hybrid works appear regularly in literary magazines such as Columba, 32 Poems, Plume, Posit, Brevity; Vinyl; Eleven Eleven; diode; Ping Pong; Matter Monthly; Forklift, OH; A Handsome Journal; Resistance Journal; Blackbird; The BOMBlog; REVOLUTIONesque; Everyday Genius; and failbetter.com. She teaches, both academically and privately, and makes printed matter, collage, and assemblage.


Here's Grace Cavalieri's review of Quitter in The Washington Independent Review of Books:
[http://www.washingtonindependentrevie...]

Here's Jordan Davis's review of Ghost Fargo in the Constant Critic:
[http://www.constantcritic.com/jordan_...]

Here's a first book interview about Upon Arrival with Kate Greenstreet: [http://www.kickingwind.com/022407.html]

Reviews

[Diana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Seeing the encaustics along with the poems would have made this a more powerful read, but I truly liked it.