Mortal Trash

In an airport

you can eat with a metal fork

but the knife must be made of extruded polymers

to keep you from committing hara-kiri

as you return from delivering your lecture

on postmodern literary theory.

Addonizio relishes bringing together moments of pleasure and pain, love and disaster.”

—American Poet

Addonizio is a master of compressed intensity who always nails the emotional image.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

She also teaches private poetry workshops and volunteers for The Hunger Project, a global organization empowering impoverished people to achieve self-reliance.

and is an occasional presenter for BBC Radio.

two NEA Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and Pushcart Prizes in both poetry and the essay.

novels, two story collections, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within.

memoir, Bukowski in a Sundress (Viking/Penguin),

finalist for the National Book Awar

American Poetry Review: Manners; Sleep Stage; Sonnets 12, 21, 73

Café Review: Wishbone

The Dark Horse (Scotland): Stray Sparks, Eulogy

Fifth Wednesday: Divine

Five Points: Introduction to Poetry; Plastic

Iodine: Scrapbook; Reel

Los Angeles Review: Dream the Night My Brother Dies; Pareidolia

Mead (online): Review of Possible Signs and Symptoms

New Letters: Applied Mathematics (as Integers)

Plume (online): Out in the Tranquil Bay; Over the Bright and Darkened Lands

Poetry: Lives of the Poets

Poetry London (UK): The Givens

Poetry Review (UK): Party; Prosody Pathétique; White Flower, Red Flower

PoetsArtists: Ways to Go; Candy Heart Valentine; Giardino Dei Tarocchi

Psychology Tomorrow (online): Florida

River Styx: Idioms for Rain

Structo (UK): Darkening, Then Brightening; Invisible Signals

Threepenny Review: What to Save from the Fire

Virginia Quarterly Review: Except Thou Ravish Me

Willow Springs: Internet Dating

“Divine” also appeared in Best American Poetry 2013. “Darkening, Then Brightening” was also a selection for Poem-A-Day from the Academy of American Poets.

Gratitude: Jill Bialosky, Donna Masini, and Rob McQuilkin. Thanks to the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and La Romita School of Art for time and inspiration.