Susan Rich

Susan Rich is the author of five books of poetry. Her most recent is BLUE ATLAS (Red Hen Press). Her awards include a PEN USA Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Times Literary Supplement Award. Rich’s poems have appeared in the Antioch Review, New England Review, O Magazine, Image Journal, and elsewhere.

  • A Series of Small Scandals and Dear Telephone Booth,

    Imogen photographed her new husband:
  • Odyssey to the Self: Seven Minutes with Susan Rich and Nancy Mitchell

    When my mother took out the small skillet, black and flecked
  • Hello, July 5th!

    The morning is full of embarrassed flowers
  • What If a House Could Draw its Own Blueprints? and The Decision

    The house grows wild, floats
  • Extreme Close-up

    All the things I love about his face come from movement:
  • A WOMAN I KNEW ATE FIRE FOR BREAKFAST

    And the light would tattoo itself across her mouth
  • SECRET AGENT | GUARDIAN OF THE EGG

    A long armed monkey lurks by the far
  • Geology Lessons

    I look back through the window of a Greyhound Bus
  • This Could Happen

    If you kept walking you would eventually step out of yourself.