Virginia Konchan's most recent collection of poems is Bel Canto (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2022). She is the author of three other poetry collections: The End of Spectacle and Any God Will Do (Carnegie Mellon, 2018 and 2020), and Hallelujah Time (Véhicule Press, 2021), as well as a short story collection, Anatomical Gift. Coeditor of the craft anthology Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems, her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Atlantic, American Poetry Review, The Believer, and the Academy of American Poets.

Other poems by Virginia Konchan in Verse Daily:
December 14, 2021:   "Death Pastoral" "Sometimes, naked, I don't feel naked...."
December 14, 2020:   "The Gilded Age" "The sky is all eyelid..."
May 17, 2018:   "Mary Shelley" "You are the furthest thing..."

Books by Virginia Konchan:

Other poems on the web by Virginia Konchan:
"Vigil"
"Ubi Sunt"
"Memento Mori"
"Epithalamion"
"Joyride"
"Wheel of Fortune"
"The Equivocal World"
Four poems
"Addendum"
Five poems
Two poems
"Hard Night"
Four poems
"Helen Keller at the Rodeo"
Three poems
Ten poems
"Golden Corral"
Two poems
Two poems
"Mon Guerlain"
Two poems
Two poems
Two poems
Two poems
"Suburbia"
Three poems
"Epithalamium"
Two poems
Two poems
"Christina's Field"
"I Can't Go On, I'll Go On"
Five poems

Virginia Konchan's Website.

About Bel Canto:

"Concerned with the intersection between love and death and the body, Konchan's refined, musical poems regularly arrive at genuine revelation."
—Allison Benis White

"Virginia Konchan's Bel Canto is a metaphysical picaresque, a mutinous epic, an elegant subversion of old school aesthetics, consumerism, marketing, banal notions of selfhood and soul, 'the whole damn work of representation,' all in a champagne glass-shattering vocal performance like nothing else I've read. The allusions spark and spiral with iconoclastic power: '...hope is the thing with feathers / that perches atop the combat vehicle.' 'Alexa, play Blessed Be Your Name.' There is no collection more brilliantly suited to the times we're living through. Bel Canto will rattle you like God rattles, like poetry rattles God."
—Diane Seuss