Suzanne Frischkorn is the author of Fixed Star (JackLeg Press, 2022) a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist, Girl on a Bridge, Lit Windowpane, (both from Main Street Rag Press) and five chapbooks. She is the recipient of The Writer's Center Emerging Writers Fellowship for her book, Lit Windowpane, the Aldrich Poetry Award for her chapbook, Spring Tide, selected by Mary Oliver, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism, and a 2023 SWWIM Residency Award at The Betsy. Her writing is forthcoming in Latino Poetry: A New Anthology, edited by Rigoberto González (Library of America, 2024) and A Mollusk Without a Shell: Essays on Self-Care for Writers (University of Akron Press, 2024). She is an editor at $ — Poetry Is Currency, and serves on the Terrain.org editorial board. Her fourth book of poems, Whipsaw, is forthcoming in 2024 from Anhinga Press.

Other poems by Suzanne Frischkorn in Verse Daily:
June 5, 2010:   "Zoological Garden" "cement frogs with faulty faucets did me in..."
December 5, 2008:   "The Tulip Thief, Mi Amor" "At first it was an ember; its glow I nursed..."

Books by Suzanne Frischkorn:

Other poems on the web by Suzanne Frischkorn:
Two poems
Three poems
Two poems
Three poems
"Victors of Tiny, Silent, Invasive Insect"
Two poems
"Great Lash"
Two poems
"More Woods Fewer People"

Suzanne Frischkorn's Website.

Suzanne Frischkorn on Twitter.

About Fixed Star:

"The opening poem, 'Cuban Polymita,' from which the title Fixed Star arises, serves as the scaffolding device for Frischkorn's manuscript. Like the beautiful painted snails it references, the book, too, is a series of spirals: mainly, a pair of sonnet coronas whose recursive lines twine through the manuscript, both framing and bracing it. Navigating splits in language, geography, government, culture, and family-Frischkorn guides us through poems that are, contrapuntally, both luxuriant and lean. Swirling through this compact, honed manuscript is a series of citations (Shakespeare, John Cage, Muriel Rukeyser, John Keats, Normando Hernández González), and geographies (Cuba, Spain, Florida, Pennsylvania) that create transit across decades and differing terrains. Constellated with Latin jazz, jasper, sea glass, bougainvillea, contradanza, and coral reefs, Fixed Star is a brilliant treatise on violence, division, loss, longing, and the search for song. "
—Simone Muench