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Heather Treseler

Heather Treseler's Parturition (2020) won Munster Literature Centre's international poetry chapbook prize, and her sequence of poems, "The Lucie Odes," won Missouri Review's Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize. Her poems appear in Cincinnati Review, The Iowa Review, and Harvard Review, and her essays about poetry appear in the Los Angeles Review of BooksPN Review, and in six books of criticism. She is associate professor of English and the Presidential Fellow for Art, Education, and Community at Worcester State University and a visiting scholar at the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center.

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Poetry
Heather Treseler

Reviews of new poetry from Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Kimberly Burwick, Caroline Crumpacker, Kathy Fagan, Jennifer Firestone, and Virginia Konchan

Virginia Konchan

The collected poems of Frank Bidart provide an incisive index of the latter half of the twentieth century.

Heather Treseler

A stunning trove of letters from Elizabeth Bishop to her therapist sheds light on the personal secrets that shaped her poetry.

Heather Treseler

Fanny Howe's Second Childhood

Heather Treseler

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