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!

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 Reviewed by Emily Pérez at RHINO

Very grateful to Emily Pérez for this beautiful, thoughtful review of FIXED STAR at RHINO. “Throughout, the poet seeks the place that’s hers….She is not welcomed by nations with open arms; instead through travel, exile, story, and invention she crafts her own fixed star.”

Mercy Street Reading Series

Excited for this reading! Sunday, October 2 - Mercy Street features Elisa Gabbert, Suzanne Frischkorn, Kathy Fagan, Soren Stockman, Cyrus Cassells, and Michael Joseph Walsh. 

Virtual | Register HERE 

Interview at EcoTheo Review

A thousand and one thanks to Esteban Rodriguez for his close reading of FIXED STAR and his thought-provoking questions for this interview at EcoTheo Review. We spoke about language, heritage, the writing community, joy, and much more.

FIXED STAR is officially out!

 

Thank you Simone Muench, JackLeg Press, everyone who helped me make this book a reality, & all of you who celebrated with me along the way — I am very grateful.

Purchase FIXED STAR from your local bookstore at — IndieBound, Book Shop,  B&N, or Amazon. 

Writers in Conversation Suzanne Frischkorn and Emily Hockaday hosted by Laurel Peterson

Looking forward to talking with Emily and Laurel in person at the Norwalk Library— if you’re in the area I would love to see you there!

An Afternoon with Suzanne Frischkorn, Mai Der Vang, & Jennifer Elise Forester - Hudson Valley Writers Center (via Zoom)

 

I’m so excited to be reading with Mai Der Vang & Jennifer Elise Forester on August 7th, at 4PM for The Hudson Valley Writers Center! Via Zoom | FREE. I hope you can join us! 

Fixed Star on Tour!

 

Fixed Star has a Preorder Link!

I’m excited to share that my new poetry collection is now available for preorder! The official release date is September 15th.  

It’s available at these sites:

BookShop | Barnes & Noble | Amazon 

Advance Praise:

In Suzanne Frischkorn’s intoxicating Fixed Star, content and form mirror and echo each other, twin and twine. From the opening line in the first of a sequence of sonnets that generates the book’s architecture, "Birth cleaved me in half,” we learn that the subject is separation, from first language, landscape, and heritage, a loss, a violence, a thievery carried by and negotiated within the body, which becomes, itself, a translation. So what, then, can poetry be? In Frischkorn’s hands, it is— well—everything. It is the cry and the answering cry, the body’s disappearance and revolution, history and tangled myth and the site of self-creation, honoring the fragments while languaging them into something greater, more songful than a whole. Much of the book’s authority emerges from Frischkorn’s formal virtuosity. And then there are the voices she braids into the poems. Transtromer and Plath. Keats and John Cage. Shakespeare and Olga Guillot. They are lyric companions on a perilous road…Fixed Star cannot be reduced to anything but itself. I am in genuine awe.

─Diane Seuss, author of frank: sonnets

Elegant, clear-eyed, and restless, Suzanne Frischkorn’s poems seek and illuminate the frayed hyphens fastening us to family, to the world. Her searching is psychologically rich, transformative: an iridescent interiority spirals outward to touch what sustains it, what divides it. Structurally brilliant, alive with lyrical thinking and observations, Fixed Star is ample proof of Frischkorn’s poetic gifts. In her hands, language is light.

─Eduardo C. Corral, author of Guillotine

Cover Reveal!

I’m eternally grateful to Reb Livingston for gracing FIXED STAR with her stunning artwork. And a peek at the words from two of my poetry heroes - Eduardo C. Corral and Diane Seuss - whose eloquence and generosity completely overwhelmed me. More soon!

New Poem in Indianapolis Review's Poets Are Funny Issue

Happy to have my poem Prompts in the Indianapolis Review’s Poets Are Funny issue! Many thanks to Natalie Solmer & the crew at Indianapolis Review. 

I wrote this poem in that most playful of times NaPoWriMo.

New Poetry Collection - FIXED STAR forthcoming from JackLeg Press!

I’m excited to share that my next poetry collection, FIXED STAR, is forthcoming from JackLeg Press! Much gratitude to JLP poetry editor Simone Muench, founding editor & director Jennifer Harris, and the entire editorial team for selecting my book. I’m so thrilled to join the JLP family of writers! 

Here are some of Simone’s comments on FIXED STAR— "The opening poem, "Cuban Polymita," from which the title Fixed Star arises, serves as the scaffolding device for Frischkorn's manuscript. Like the beautiful painted snails it references, the book, too, is a series of spirals: mainly, a pair of sonnet coronas whose recursive lines twine through the manuscript, both framing and bracing it. Navigating splits in language, geography, government, culture, and family—"My father's from Cuba. I'm American. /He wanted me to learn one language really well"—Frischkorn guides us through poems that are, contrapuntally, both luxuriant and lean.... FIXED STAR is a brilliant treatise on violence, division, loss, longing, and the search for song."

Two Poems in House Mountain Review

I’m thrilled to have two poems, “Upwind,” (best read on your monitor) and “Year Three of the Colossal Fraud” in the outstanding inaugural issue of House Mountain Review! So many fine writers for you to peruse here. Many thanks to the editors —Saddiq Dzukogi, Gabriel Gudding, Jessica Metzler, Paloma Yannakakis, and Julie Phillips Brown.

NPR Poetry Moment

What a thrill to hear Jamie Medel read my poem from the Dear America Anthology,"It's Time to Teach My Daughter How" on NPR's Poetry Moment  yesterday! I'm so grateful to the editors for this beautiful, necessary anthology. 

Two Poems at Pine Hills Review

Very happy to have two poems, "Keith Richards I Was With You," and "Little Did We Know," at Pine Hills Review. Many thanks to the editors!

Across the Social Distances

Happy to have my poem To Breathe It Would Choke You in Becca Klaver’s pop-up journal, Across the Social Distances — poetry in the time of the virus. They are still open for submissions. Submit!

Juked

Delighted to have my poem Copse in the beautiful May issue of Juked. Many thanks to the editors!

2017 Poet Crush List

I'm flattered to be on this 2017 Poet Crush List among some very fine poets, but feel compelled to let you know my books are not out of print. Both Lit Windowpane and Girl on a Bridge are available at the MSR Bookstore for a very reasonable price. LOL! 

Terrain's Elemental Issue

Yay! I have two poems reprinted in Terrain's new Elemental Issue! "My Body as a Communist Country" first appeared in Copper Nickel, and "My Body as the Tropicana Nightclub, 1952" first appeared in North American Review.