I can’t remember the first time you frightened me. Just like I can’t remember a time in which you did not hover in my consciousness, floating over the saints from my childhood books. It was as if you ...

I had the happy idea to fasten a bicycle wheel to a kitchen stool and watch it turn. —Duchamp I had the happy idea to suspend some blue globes in the air and watch them pop. I had the happy idea to ...

Szybist's book "Incarnadine" is one of five finalists in the poetry category. Szybist teaches at Lewis & Clark College and has degrees from the University of Virginia and the University of Iowa. Her ...

Shortly after winning the 2013 National Book Award for her second collection of poems, “Incarnadine,” Portland’s Mary Szybist told the Paris Review that she started writing poetry when she was young, ...

A pair of America’s best young poets take the stage at the latest installment of the 2014/2015 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series, Mary Szybist and Kevin Young. Szybist is the author of ...

The winners of the 64th National Book Awards were announced at a ceremony at Cipriani in downtown Manhattan on Wednesday evening. More than 700 members of the book community gathered for the reveal of ...

In prose, narrative forms the body, while in poetry it is language: The word made flesh. How appropriate then that Mary Syzbist should use a similar transmutation — the annunciation of Mary, wherein ...

“All you can do is fail,” said Mary Szybist about the challenge of measuring herself against the ideal of the Virgin Mary. “There’s something profoundly inhuman about her. She is valued because she is ...

New York, N.Y. – The trustees of Saint Thomas More: The Catholic Chapel & Center at Yale University and the directors of America Media are pleased to announce that Mary Szybist, author of Incarnadine ...

Poetry Paths has been installing poetry and art at public locations in Lancaster since 2009. Some of its literary choices - such as Emily Dickinson's "I Dwell in Possibility," at the Lancaster Public ...

2020 was a lost year. Anxiously watching the coronavirus spread across the globe, we missed sharing so much with others, including the four seasons with their shifts in color and temperature. Then ...

Portland poet Mary Szybist won a National Book Award for her poetry Wednesday night. (Joni Kabana) a Portland poet who teaches at Lewis & Clark College, won the National Book Award for poetry ...