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Heather Altfeld

Poet/Essayist/Teacher/Editor

Poetry (Books and Selected Poems)

Letter to Me from Tissardmine, published in Subtropics, Fall 2023

Three Poems in The Georgia Review:  Earth Obituary, Obituary for Silence, and The Ancestors Remain Unhelpful with the Recent Tide of Events

Rattle, Poets Respond, November

Post-Mortem is Heather Altfeld's second collection of poetry.  It won the 2019 Orison Prize, judged by Eric Pankey.

 

You can order Post-Mortem from Orison Books here:  Post-Mortem, by Heather Altfeld

The Disappearing Theatre

Heather Altfeld's first collection of poetry, winner of the 2016 Poets at Work Prize, judged by Stephen Dunn.

Poetry Society of America

2017 Robert H. Winner Award, excerpt from "903"

From the Republic of Sleep and Mercy and The Island That Reminds You of Your Childhood in Plume Poetry Journal

Helpless Intruders in a Strange World Winner of the Iron Horse Literary Review e-chapbook contest, with photographs by Byron Wolfe

Calculus for Insomniacs, at The American Journal of Poetry

Late Atonement, Lower Sierra at The Cortland Review
The American Journal of Poetry, "A Stop at Willoughby"
The American Journal of Poetry, "The Glymphatic System"
Blackbird, "Planet of the Aged"
Rattle, "Letter to Dick from Time"
Rattle, "Pliny's Traveling Apothecary Visits the Bleeker St. Clinic"
Narrative Magazine, "From the Last Will and Testament of the Orphelines"
Narrative Magazine, "Adolescence"

Praise for The Disappearing Theatre, winner of the 2015 Poets at Work Prize

"Heather Altfeld’s sensuous, packed sentences became, for me, irresistible. After reading a few poems, I wondered if she could sustain such linguistic virtuosity. And then I wondered if that virtuosity served its subject. The answer was yes to both.

I remember asking a famous editor of a famous magazine how he was able to get through the plethora of poems that were sent to him. He said he read with a profound boredom, and waited to be made alert. The Disappearing Theather compels us into alertness. It's a wonderful first book."     –Stephen Dunn

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