Becca Klaver is the author of the poetry collections LA Liminal (Kore Press, 2010), Empire Wasted (Bloof Books, 2016), and Ready for the World (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), as well as several chapbooks. A founding editor of Switchback Books, she is currently co-editing, with Arielle Greenberg, the digital poetry anthology Electric Gurlesque. She is the Robert P. Dana Director of the Center for the Literary Arts at Cornell College and lives in Iowa City.

Other poems by Becca Klaver in Verse Daily:
July 5, 2020:   "Performativity" "Stand on the widow's walk and watch the ships come in..."
April 24, 2017:   "The revolution starts at home" "The revolution will be ready in, like, half an hour..."
November 18, 2014:   "Open Season" "I get all my news from the weather report or..."

Books by Becca Klaver:

Other poems on the web by Becca Klaver:
Three poems
Two poems
"Astro-Luv (Harmony of the Worlds"
Two poems
"The Allies Prepare Politely"
"Post-Nine/Eleven"
Six poems

Becca Klaver's Website.

Becca Klaver on Twitter.

About Ready for the World:

"Becca Klaver's Ready for the World is a dazzling, brilliant spellbook for femmes, witches, and bad princesses, a survival guide for our gross misogynist times. With poems created from FB girl party message boards to tarot cards to selfies, Ready for the World is major contemporary while still paying honor to feminist conceptual art foremothers like Yoko Ono, who taught us the power of words, of wishes. 'A wish is not a luxury' Klaver writes, 'They will tell you you can have no more wishes / And yet we wish well of course we wish.' Klaver's spells and wishes give me permission, give me life."
—Kate Durbin

"'A reverse exorcism'. Ready for the World is on the astrological cusp of Cancer and carcinogen, analog experience and clickable fantasy. With her selfie timer set, Becca Klaver takes our hand and skips us through an Insta feed looking-glass into an introspective grimoire. The girly spectral speakers of the 'pink geometry' mapped in these poems stake their own subjectivity in packs, through ritual and performativity and raucous laughter. Whether your own adolescence was blissfully full of besties who Ouija'ed yourselves out of the patriarchy or not, you can 'get that teenage feeling back' with this tricked-out book. Call in the four elements and stand by for the headrush of magic."
—Arielle Greenberg