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Virginia Konchan

Virginia Konchan is the author of three poetry collections, Hallelujah Time (VĂ©hicule Press, 2021), Any God Will Do, and The End of Spectacle (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2020 and 2018); a collection of short stories, Anatomical Gift (Noctuary Press, 2017); and four chapbooks, as well as coeditor (with Sarah Giragosian) of the craft anthology Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems (University of Akron Press, 2022). Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Best New Poets, The Believer, and The New Republic.

Articles

We can find reconciliation and closure in poetry, despite the forces that engender grief and dispossession. Three new poetry collections refuse the binaries and amnesia that so often characterize American mourning.
Virginia Konchan
Poetry
Virginia Konchan
One of the most important contemporary poets of Francophone Africa, Josué Guébo writes in language that is raucous, difficult, and outrageously beautiful.
Virginia Konchan
Poetry

Let’s go on a date! Let’s make a joke

of the MEAL PART, wadding our napkins

into strangled swans, and ordering only

shoestring fries with malt vinegar,

Virginia Konchan
On the electric poetry of Christopher Salerno.
Virginia Konchan
On the poetry of francine j. harris.
Virginia Konchan
Frida Kahlo, Manet’s Olympia, and more. 
Virginia Konchan
Mouths, metaphor, and metonymy.
Virginia Konchan
Poetry

The pool is empty; no bathers stand nearby....

Virginia Konchan
Poems whose power to depict the zeitgeist rivals the iconic image making of Dorothea Lange.
Virginia Konchan
A lack of philosophical posturing, name-dropping and other navel-gazing tics makes this collection very attractive.
Virginia Konchan

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