Poetry (Books and Selected Poems)
Three Poems in The Georgia Review: Earth Obituary, Obituary for Silence, and The Ancestors Remain Unhelpful with the Recent Tide of Events
"From the Republic of Sleep and Mercy" and "The Island That Reminds You of Your Childhood" in Plume Poetry Journal
Post-Mortem is Heather Altfeld's second collection of poetry, winner of the 2019 Orison Books Prize. You can order Post-Mortem from Orison Books here
Praise for Post-Mortem:
Heather Altfeld and others of her inquisitive ilk lead the interrogation of a mad world.
—Foreword Reviews
[Altfeld] is able to create for us a complex longing for the world we love, even as it vanishes.
—Meryl Natchez, Zyzzyva
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