Yvonne Zipter is the author of the poetry collections Kissing the Long Face of the Greyhound, The Patience of Metal (a Lambda Literary Award Finalist), and Like Some Bookie God. Her poems have appeared in numerous periodicals over the years, including Poetry, Southern Humanities Review, Calyx, Crab Orchard Review, Metronome of Aptekarsky Ostrov (Russia), Bellingham Review, and Spoon River Poetry Review, as well as in several anthologies. She is also the author of two nonfiction books: Diamonds Are a Dyke's Best Friend and Ransacking the Closet. Her published poems are currently being sold in two poetry-vending machines in Chicago, from which the proceeds are donated to a nonprofit arts organization called Arts Alive Chicago. Her Russian historical novel, Infraction, will be published in 2021. She worked as a manuscript editor at the University of Chicago Press until her retirement in 2018.

Other poems by Yvonne Zipter in Verse Daily:
January 13, 2016:   "Manners of the Flesh" "If I lift my eyes toward heaven..."

Books by Yvonne Zipter:

Other poems on the web by Yvonne Zipter:
"Osteosarcoma: A Love Poem"
Four poems
"Salt"
"Giant SweeTart"
"Kissing, Fire"

Yvonne Zipter's Website.

Yvonne Zipter on Twitter.

About Kissing the Long Face of the Greyhound:

"Oh, how I resent the constrictions of blurbese in speaking of such a collection, given its abundantly laudable qualities. One is that rarest of features in our time, what the Augustans called Wit (see, e.g., 'The Pencils Speak of Impermanence'). There is also Zipter's matchless eye for physical detail, ranging from the natural world to conjugal and even canine love. Supreme, however, is the poet's way with pathos: read, say, the paean to her grandfather Elmer and stay dry-eyed—dare you! Early in the book, the poet complains, 'I wish I'd been around when the world was new / and everything needed names," and yet her own naming makes everything new again."
—Sydney Lea