Steven Cramer

Steven Cramer’s chapbook, As If: Variations on Enrique Anderson-Imbert, will be published by Lily Poetry Review Press in September, 2025.  His previous collections are Departures from Rilke (Arrowsmith Press, 2023); Listen, (MadHat Press, 2020)—long-listed as a “must read” by the Massachusetts Center for the Book—Clangings (Sarabande Books, 2012); Goodbye to the Orchard (Sarabande Books, 2004)—winner of the Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club and an Honor Book in Poetry from the Massachusetts Center for the Book; Dialogue for the Left and Right Hand (Lumen Editions/Brookline Books, 1997); The World Book (Copper Beech Press, 1992); and The Eye that Desires to Look Upward (Galileo Press, 1987).  His poems and criticism have appeared in numerous journals, including AGNI, The Atlantic Monthly, Field, The Kenyon Review, The Nation, The New England Review, The Paris Review, and Poetry.  Recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and two fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, he founded the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University.

 

  • Two Poems

    One summer night I lay down under a yew tree.
  • A Brief Portfolio

    A murder of crows wing black vectors across
  • Two Departures from Rilke

    Terrified past panic, strict lines collapsed,
  • Dickinson’s Facsicle 16:  A Book Review by Steven Cramer

    Steven Cramer both enlightens and entertains in his essay, “Dickinson’s Fascicle 16: A Book Review.” In his ambitious undertaking of…

    Issue #127 March 2022
  • A Story About Vietnam and Alexi Santana

    In a tiled bathroom stall, one chapter per tile,
  • Flight, Ours & A Burn So Bad It Requires Ice

    We’re in bad, we’re in terrible, shape
  • The Look

    I’ll never tell Ethan I listen to him sing
  • CALLING BACK | CHARITY

    My daughter sings in snow falling through the scent of red oak or ash, some of the flakes large enough to contain passages from Emily Dickinson’s letters.