Margot Schilpp teaches at Southern Connecticut State University and at Quinnipiac University. She is the author of Civil Twilight, Laws of My Nature, and The World's Last Night. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Other poems by Margot Schilpp in Verse Daily:
March 5, 2012:   "Charmed" "Little statue of Ganesh: you are the Lord..."
November 27, 2010:   "On Not Making Arrangements" "Organization is overrated: rivers..."
September 26, 2005:   "Enter, Fall" " What parts of the plans holding..."
January 25, 2005:  "Taking Leave of My Senses" "I want that, I think, when I see the slender body..."
January 13, 2005:  "What Narrative Is For" "How fine the mind that can calculate..."
May 25, 2003:  "Vanishing Point" "The way an island holds back..."
May 5, 2003:  "Manifesto" "I know that dying is how we escape..."
July 4, 2002:  "Laws of My Nature" "Obviously, the roosters are in league / with morning..."

Books by Margot Schilpp:

Other poems on the web by Margot Schilpp:
Four poems
"Optimum Conditions"
Two poems
"Customs"
Three poems
"Cumulus"
"Takeover"
"Lullaby with One Party Missing"
"Firsts"
"Spring Burials"

Margot Schilpp on Twitter.

About Afterswarm:

"Afterswarm is a collection of powerful, sometimes kaleidoscopic meditations on the human condition in a universe akin to Stephen Crane's, one which has 'no sense of obligation' for our existence. The trials of mutability, heartbreak, alienation, and mundanity are met with stoical tenacity (and, occasionally, wry humor) while 'shimmerings' of beauty and love are 'syncopated against loss.' These poems strike deep. And Schilpp's unembellished eloquence, musician's ear, and eye for evocative detail energize every page of this extraordinary book."
—William Trowbridge