Calming the Body Through Poetry
Poetry in the Body with Priscilla Becker
Priscilla Becker’s first book of poems, Internal West, won The Paris Review book prize. Her second collection, Stories That Listen, was released from Four Way Books. Her poems have appeared in the following literary journals, among several others: Fence, Open City, Boston Review, The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Verse, Dossier, Aufgabe, and The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets; she recently won the Folio poetry prize; her fiction was materialized in The Literary Review, winner of The Charles Angoff prize. Her collection of essays: Morbid Dyslexia was selected as the finalist in the GrayWolf Press nonfiction contest, then published in The Literary Review; her music reviews have been published in The Nation and Filter magazine; her essays in Cabinet magazine and Open City. Her non-fiction has been anthologized by Soft Skull Press, Anchor Books, and Sarabande. She has completed her third book, Pure Brown, and a chapbook, Death Certificate, which will be published by Ugly Duckling Presse.