Yvonne Zipter is the author of the poetry collections The Wordless Lullaby of Crickets, Kissing the Long Face of the Greyhound, The Patience of Metal, and Like Some Bookie God. Her published poems are currently being sold individually in Chicago in two repurposed toy-vending machines, the proceeds of which are donated to the nonprofit arts organization Arts Alive Chicago. She is also the author of the nonfiction books Diamonds Are a Dyke's Best Friend and Ransacking the Closet and the Russian historical novel Infraction. She is retired from the University of Chicago Press, where she was a manuscript editor.

Other poems on the web by Yvonne Zipter:
"Osteosarcoma: A Love Poem"
Three poems
"What's in a Name?"
Two poems
Four poems

Yvonne Zipter's Website.

Yvonne Zipter on Twitter.

About The Wordless Lullaby of Crickets:

"This brilliant collection of poems by Yvonne Zipter is filled with compressed storytelling that speaks both lyrically and narratively to the human spirit's resiliency. Keenly observant, Zipter writes compassionately and gratefully as she takes readers with her through hardship, loss, and her battle with cancer toward portals of hope. With abundant intelligence and heart, Zipter looks deeply into the darkness while sustaining the possibilities of light. She shows, through flawless writing and rich imagery, that despite whatever life's challenges may be, there are ways in which fulfillment may be attained. To borrow a line from her concluding poem, this book hums 'through the dark hours on a swell of happiness.'"
—Adele Kenny

"A kind of radical compassion is at work in the poems of Yvonne Zipter's The Wordless Lullaby of Crickets. It's not simple good cheer or just some sort of positive spin on life; it's complex, and it's always a little—deliciously—ambiguous. One can be, in these poems, 'blessed with a trinity / of crows;' one notices a lovely Johnny Hodges saxophone tune returning unbidden in the midst of a round of chemotherapy; and one realizes, then, that one is in the presence of a poet wielding words the way a player plays notes of a sad and somehow uplifting song."
—Robert Wrigley

"In her third full-length poetry collection, The Wordless Lullaby of Crickets, Yvonne Zipter writes with power and precision about her family, the poets who influenced her, her sexuality, her struggle with cancer, her wife, her favorite jazz music to which she turns again and again, and above all, the consolation of nature, which is, as it was for Emily Dickinson, the encounter with the numinous, perfectly exemplified in the last lines of 'The Kestrel:' 'all the holy days of our childhoods insignificant / in the single yellow rosary bead of her eye.'"
—J.R. Solonche