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WHIPSAW Reviewed by Jami Macarty for NewPages

Much gratitude to Jami Macarty for this beautiful, fierce review of WHIPSAW, and to NewPages for featuring it! Here is a snip--

"Bad things happen to girls and women in the forest, but not in these poems. “This is not a fairy tale.” Hurrah! Instead, the forest offers “detail of light and shade,” where our speaker takes solace among trees, and where “Like Thoreau alone // in the distant woods [she] come[s] to her[self].

Out of that recovery comes a desire “to pay tribute to the promise / of the future” which requires allegiance to both the “ancestral forest” and the next generation. Here is a poet who fights for her freedom, protests “deforest, // to develop,” and strives to be the “kind / of mother— / to gift [her] child / endurance and steady pace.”

In Whipsaw, Suzanne Frischkorn uses language to cut in two ways—beyond the imperiled and “beyond the veil.”

You can read the full review HERE

WHIPSAW Reviewed by Simmons Buntin for Terrain.org

 “Daughters and birdsong. Threat and hope. Intuition and resistance. Power.

Suzanne Frischkorn’s Whipsaw is an extraordinary collection from an accomplished poet who deftly guides the reader through an America full of beauty and danger, an America all the more navigable thanks to these poems. Every poem is a kind of letter to America, intricately crafted, brazen and brilliant. Read this timely book before the election, then read it again for its timeless guidance, its lasting lyricism, its essential if cautious hope.”

Much gratitude to Simmons Buntin for this insightful, gorgeous, and rave review of WHIPSAW at Terrain.org. What a gift to be read with such care and what a joy to feel seen.

Read the full review HERE

WHIPSAW Reviewed by Amanda Auchter for Rhino

 

“These are poems of survival and risk, of finding balance in a society that often seems as though it thrives on chaos.” 

Grateful for this astute, and gorgeous review of WHIPSAW by Amanda Auchter and much gratitude to Rhino as well!

Anhinga Press: A Short Interview with Suzanne Frischkorn

New interview up at the Anhinga Press Instagram account! I loved speaking with Anhinga Press about WHIPSAW. Here is a snip if you aren't on Instagram --

Speaking of Marvels Interview

Many thanks to William Woolfitt for inviting me to participate in his wonderful interview series Speaking of Marvels! I answered questions on overcoming inhibition, my writing space, revision, WHIPSAW, and what I’m working on now.

Cover reveal! WHIPSAW (Anhinga Press)

I’m so thrilled to share the cover of WHIPSAW coming from Anhinga Press in April. Pre-order HERE Free Shipping til 4/20/24 • At checkout enter code WHIP2024  

My gratitude to acclaimed sculptor David Altmejd for gracing the cover with a detail from his powerful sculpture “Le Trou” and many thanks to the David Kordansky Gallery. Thank you to artist and poet Karla Van Vliet for the beautiful cover design, and to Kristine Snodgrass and Lynne Knight for believing in this book and for their warm welcome to the flock. The whole team at Anhinga has been amazing – shout out to Amber Lunderman!

I’m honored to have the beautiful, generous words of two poets and writers I hold in the highest esteem on the back cover—a thousand and one thanks to Allison Adelle Hedge Coke and Alison Hawthorne Deming!

Here’s what they had to say about it —

Suzanne Frischkorn writes with the grit and tenderness it takes for a woman to live and raise children in violent America. Peril is close at hand, but so too is the solace of forests and seasons. She gathers crystalline images, as after an ice storm, “the branches/sounded like the parting of bead curtains.” But the cut of helicopter blades follows close by. Hers is a terrible and beautiful balancing act. She takes inspiration from Alice Notley, Keith Richards, the Bard—and most profoundly Gaston Bachelard who leads her into “the great law of forest revery.” I treasure this book so rich in thought and feeling. 

--Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of A Woven World

Suzanne Frischkorn’s Whipsaw is an astonishing run through verdant and shattered forests, transcended one temporal dimension at a time. Everything we come to know, by breath and apparition, gives way to what we pull through it, make of it. Whether harp or clasp, song or quietude, dark horse or deer’s leap, social burdens attend condolences and we sure ourselves with understory every entry a new bound. A sensational and deeply intense read, a scatter of sunrays cut through bird song great. This one cuts to the core, delivering stunning reveal. Must read!

--Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, author of Look at This Blue

2024 is Anhinga’s 50th Anniversary – I’m over the moon to be celebrating with this wonderful press!

Fixed Star Reviewed at Letras Latinas

Much gratitude to Brittany Torres Rivera for this lovely review of Fixed Star and to Letras Latinas for featuring it on A House of Our Own!

Best of the Net Nomination

I’m honored! Many thanks to the editors at The Westchester Review for nominating my poem, “Elegy for the Chicks in Martins Ferry, Ohio” for the Best of the Net anthology.  This poem is in my book WHIPSAW forthcoming in 2024 from Anhinga Press. Congrats to the other nominees as well!

"My Body as a Communist Country" featured at Verse Daily

Many thanks to Verse Daily for featuring "My Body as a Communist Country" from FIXED STAR today! This poem first appeared in Copper Nickel.

FIXED STAR Reviewed at The Shore

My immense gratitude to Tyler Truman Julian for this gorgeous, insightful review of FIXED STAR at The Shore. What a gift to be read with such care and attention!

 
Read the full review HERE. 

Two Poems in The Westchester Review

Happy to have two poems, “Elegy for the Chicks in Martins Ferry, Ohio” and “Perimenopause” in the fantastic Summer issue of The Westchester Review. Many thanks to Amy Holman and Ann Graue! 

FIXED STAR is a 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist!

I'm stunned and honored and excited! Here's the link to the FIXED STAR page and here's a link to all 2022 Foreword INDIES Finalists in Poetry. Congratulations to all the finalists!

SWWIM & The Betsy Present Suzanne Frischkorn + Susannah Simpson, March 15th, 7:30PM

I'm so excited to be heading to Miami next week for my SWWIM Residency at The Betsy! On Wednesday, March 15th, at 7:30PM I'll be reading with Susannah Simpson live at The Betsy. This is a hybrid reading and will be streamed on SWWIM's Instagram and Facebook accounts. 

It's going to be amazing to read poems from FIXED STAR in the city I was born! Join us in person or through live stream. 

KGB Monday Night Poetry Series: Judith Baumel and Suzanne Frischkorn 2/27, 7:30PM

NYC Friends — I’m looking forward to reading for the KGB Monday Night Poetry Series, In-person, with Judith Baumel! Join us!

KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th Street, NYC, on Monday, February 27th, 7:30PM.

Sunday Salon Chicago, Virtual, February 26, 6PM CDT

Looking forward to reading for Sunday Salon Chicago with Nikia Chaney, Dawn Raffel, Sara Lippmann, and Michele McDannold, Sunday, February 26, 6PM CDT. 

Virtual - join us! Register HERE

WordHouse Reading Series: James Berger and Suzanne Frischkorn, Saturday February 18, 2pm

Looking forward to reading with James Berger for the WordHouse Reading Series on Saturday, February 18th, at Noah Webster House, 227 South Main Street, West Hartford, CT. Reading starts with an open mic. This is a a free event. Join us!

Downtown Writers Center Virtual Reading: Suzanne Frischkorn & Alessandra Lynch

Join us on Friday, January 27th at 7PM ET at this virtual reading for the Downtown Writers Center — Register HERE

Fixed Star Reviewed at MER

 "...dualities play out throughout the entire collection, and Frischkorn adeptly weaves inside them images and metaphors that bring the poems back to a place of the self and its survival. The fixed star – oceanic in its depths and as fluid – is a place she seems to create in parts as the speaker reaches for her place in the world."

Very grateful to Sunni Brown Wilkinson for this gorgeous, in-depth review of FIXED STAR at MER!

Fixed Star Reviewed at New Pages

Grateful for this beautiful, thoughtful review by Jennifer Martelli of FIXED STAR at New Pages—

“Frischkorn’s use of the sonnet crown throughout the book reminds us of her mastery of the craft…. In Fixed Star, Suzanne Frischkorn assures us that, despite displacement and despair, it is the language of poetry that will “coax the palomas to follow you home.”