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.
