Meghan Privitello is the author of A New Language for Falling out of Love (YesYes Books, 2015), Notes on the End of the World, winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition (Black Lawrence Press, 2016), and One God at a Time (YesYes Books, 2020). Poems have appeared in Guernica, Gulf Coast, A Public Space, Best New Poets, Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation, and elsewhere. She is currently pursuing a Master's in Social Work.

Other poems by Meghan Privitello in Verse Daily:
July 31, 2013:   "It's Up To You, New York" "If my fortune cookie said New York is a runaway bride and..."

Books by Meghan Privitello:

Other poems on the web by Meghan Privitello:
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"The Problem is How"
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"Drainage for Angels"
Three poems
"Love, Cases of Falling Out Of"
"Hera, Say Hello"
"This Could All Be Yours"
"[When a child hears gunshots]"
"We Are All Comfortable Here"

Meghan Privitello on Twitter.

About One God at a Time:

"Meghan Privitello's stunning new book One God at a Time is a gorgeously profane collection of ecstatic abecedarians and erotic spiritual encounters. Within these poems, a corporeal and metamorphosing God becomes a weapon and a lover and a lesson in the mess desire makes of us. It's the kind of book that makes you say wow so loudly when reading that you're sure everyone in the coffee shop knows why you're blushing, how God can do that to you sometimes, especially when Privitello is the one translating those urges. As she says in one of her poems: 'you cannot believe in a god you cannot touch or ride,' but the pleasures in these poems are so real, they will make a believer out of you."
—Traci Brimhall

"I admire Privitello's ability to build an accessible surreality that complements her trademark style and voice, enhancing the urgency and emotional subtext without drifting into sentimentality. It is clear Privitello loves language and all its capabilities; One God at a Time is an evocative linguistic waltz, swaying from the sociopolitical to the personal in powerful movements that demand we become more than passive readers. Here, we are challenged to hold ourselves accountable for the heartbreaks of the world, to 'see that God is a weapon, Our fingerprints all over his blade.'"
—Rachel McKibbens

"'Let's begin with the tongue,' Meghan Privitello's One God at a Time opens. And oh, how I could not stop mine from moving: Privitello's poems rolled off my tongue as they brushed through our 'string of animal behaviors,' how we navigate the world via the modern trinity of Death, Sex, and Religion. Privitello's power lies in her ability to declare ('When I undress, the dirt throbs / for me') and question ('Why has love taken away my face?') with so much bravado that you are always hit by something ruinous, blessed, truly holy and tender. Privitello beckons us to see how 'each of our openings / is nothing if not an otherworldly kind of light.' I am on my knees, eyes fully open, in awe over these poems."
—Carly Joy Miller

"Meghan Privitello's One God at a Time picks up where Sylvia Plath left off. Plath kills God, but Privitello goes further. She and God perform a power play—sex and torture, bondage and domination. When the speaker declares, 'I want unbiased animal love / It does not judge pudge or kink / I want to build a planet made of erections,' I shriek with joy. Privitello is the queen of rejected queer kids, bullied fat girls, slut-shamed women—all of us who built sacred spaces from the ruins of our forsaken souls. A work of profane genius, One God at a Time opens the doors to a church that refuses shame and exalts flesh, pleasure, desire. I love this book."
—Claudia Cortese