Elizabeth Robinson

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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Elizabeth Robinson

January 16th, 2020

A story consists in how long the creature can hold it all in, the lung of the thing.

Elizabeth Robinson is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Rumor (Parlor Press) and Blue Heron (Center for Literary Publishing). Robinson’s creative nonfiction has recently appeared in Conjunctions and Scoundrel Time. She was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for On Ghosts (Solid Objects) and has been a winner of the National Poetry Series and the Fence Modern Poets Prize. With Jennifer Phelps, Robinson co-edited Quo Anima: innovation and spirituality in contemporary women’s poetry, published in 2019 by University of Akron Press.