Poets and Poems: Four Collections by Erin Murphy, Part 1

Erin Murphy is a professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, Altoona College. She may also be one of the most prolific writers and poets working in academia. She’s written or edited some 14 books, four in the last three years alone, with another poetry collection and an anthology of essays in the publishing pipeline. Her first poetry collection, Science of Desire, was published in 2004; her most recent, Human Resources, was published this year. She also serves as editor of The Summerset Review. 

You can wear yourself out just reading her biographical information: collections, books, prizes, teaching awards, nominations, journals and magazines publishing more than 300 of her individual poems, and editing.

To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.

Some Tuesday Readings

 

5 Fun Ways to Play with Language – L.L. Barkat at Tweetspeak Poetry.

 

“The Battle-Field,” poem by William Cullen Bryant – D.S. Martin at Kingdom Poets.

 

“Ulysses,” poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

Purposefully Lost – poem by Tim Hawkins at Every Day Poems.