Stephanie Pippin lives in St. Louis. Her poems have appeared in the Boston Review, the Iowa Review, and Ploughshares.

Books by Stephanie Pippin:

Other poems on the web by Stephanie Pippin:
"Heart"
Two poems
"Good Science"

About The Messenger:

"These quiet poems stunned me: direct and vivid, they delve deeply into the complex relationships between the natural, human, and spiritual worlds. . . . We are reminded of the limitation and dangers of our often self-defeating intellectual powers."
—Jane Mead

"These fierce poems form a Darwinian compendium with speakers who empathically merge with everything feathered and furred. There’s an odd democracy here. The fresco swan on the Pompeii wall and the clamp of a falcon digging its talons into a glove both speak equally of mystery, fragility, and the future we stand to lose when we turn our backs on nature: ‘The weight of this / is more than you imagined.’ These poems have a Keatsian beauty to them, and a Keatsian truth. In other words, everything we need to know."
—Mary Jo Bang