Poets Out Loud

Edited by Elisabeth Frost, Fordham University

Poets Out Loud is a community of poetry at Fordham University at Lincoln Center. POL's mission is to provide opportunities for the creation, dissemination and enjoyment of poetry. The POL Reading Series presents free, year-round public readings by noted and emerging poets, serving the Fordham University community and New York City at large. The POL Book Series, run in coordination with Fordham University Press, issues two new full-length volumes of poetry annually, awarding publication and honoraria to the best manuscripts submitted in an international competition.


  1. Invisible Tender

    Invisible Tender (Hardcover)

    Jennifer Clarvoe
    Price: $46.00
    Jennifer Clarvoe’s Invisible Tender is the first winner of the annual Poets Out Loud Prize for a book of poetry published each year by Fordham University Press in coordination with Fordham’s Poets Out Loud program. Poet J.D. McClatchy, the judge for the 1999 Prize, chose Invisible...

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  2. Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse

    Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse (Paperback)

    Poems Darcie Dennigan
    Price: $20.00
    Corinna, A-Maying the Apocalypse simultaneously celebrates and laments that “we are but
    decaying.” Betraying a love of old poems and symbols and new words and forms, these are poems where “the moon’s spritzing its perfumes and the phlegm is thick and fast” over...

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  3. Multiversal

    Multiversal (Hardcover)

    Amy Catanzano, Foreword by Michael Palmer
    Price: $40.00
    Multiversal, the second book by Amy Catanzano proposing a theory of quantum poetics, invites readers to explore the intersections between language, nature, science, and consciousness. Multiversal takes its name from the “multiverse,” a science fiction concept that has become an...

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  4. Multiversal

    Multiversal (Paperback)

    Amy Catanzano, Foreword by Michael Palmer
    Price: $20.00
    Multiversal, the second book by Amy Catanzano proposing a theory of quantum poetics, invites readers to explore the intersections between language, nature, science, and consciousness. Multiversal takes its name from the “multiverse,” a science fiction concept that has become an...

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  5. Things That No Longer Delight Me

    Things That No Longer Delight Me (Hardcover)

    Leslie C. Chang, Foreword by Cornelius Eady
    Price: $48.00
    Things That No Longer Delight Me is a collection of poems about family and memory. This book is filled with objects. The author writes:

    I like objects for company,

    to decorate the plainest spaces, decorum
    and
    I amass details,
    jade bracelet, her...

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