Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow is the author of The Day Judge Spencer Learned the Power of Metaphor and Old School Superhero Loves a Good Wristwatch. She has won the Red Hen Press Poetry Award, The Tusculum Review Poetry Prize, Willow Review Prize for Poetry, a Beullah Rose/Smartish Pace Poetry Prize, and three Pushcart Prize nominations (2011, 2015, 2016), two of which were nominations from the Pushcart Prize Board of Contributing Editors. Her poetry has appeared widely, including: American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Folio, Fourteen Hills, Gulf Coast, Live Encounters, The Los Angeles Review, Plume, Salamander, Santa Clara Review, Smartish Pace, Tahoma Literary Review, and Texas Review. Poems have been featured in anthologies, including: The Plume Anthology of Poetry 5, Even the Daybreak, Drawn to Marvel, and The Emily Dickinson Awards Anthology.

Books by Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow:

Other poems on the web by Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow:
Three poems
"Wilser Lopez Would Like You"
Three poems

About Horn Section All Day Every Day:

"We don't merely read these poems by Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow, we harken to voices—insistent voices that speak directly to the heart, drawing us beyond ourselves into the company of all sentient beings. Then, like the drummer in the final poem who, by plunging into his own passion, finds himself measuring and conquering time—'shouldering the wheel' of vulnerability in behalf of us all—we too, whether we realize it or not, live in the truth that we become ourselves only through each other, that only through passion can there be compassion. And fittingly, in the end, it is what we don't think we notice that we notice most: behind it all, another, a witness whose animated words rhythmically capture those luminous moments. One who cares pervasively and listens incomparably—the whole length of every vibrant day."
—Robert Longoni

"Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow's new collection, Horn Section All Day Every Day, dazzles like a Brass band, wild and bold as a trumpet, delicately plaintive as a lone French horn. Although there are stunning poems about animals throughout, which shift the tone of the volume, at its heart is the story of Super Dan, an extraterrestrial superhero who comes to Earth to study and stays to marry the witty, earthy woman he falls in love with. 'Love me and be my kiss,' Super Dan sighs to his wife. This book, a veritable 'trove of ardor,' is filled with the emotional force and beauty of that love."
—Cynthia Hogue

"Old-school songs play through and beneath these soulful poems, the radio hits of rhythm 'n' blues pioneers like Solomon Burke and Junior Wells. Yet what lifts our journey to a whole other level is the presence of a winsome comic hero named Super Dan, an extraterrestrial with a canine curiosity about human life, from the alcoholic beverages we favor to the intricacies of women's lingerie. Playing Virgil to our Dante, Super Dan takes us deep into that most mysterious of worlds, our own. Beauty awaits you, reader, as do laughter and music"
—David Kirby

"Spirited and poignant, funny and contemplative, the poems in Horn Section All Day Every Day bring us the world from a visitor's point of view, sometimes literally, and all the time reminding us that, although we are just travelling through this universe, it's what we do with our stay that matters most. Like the instruments of the title, these poems don't stop; these poems wonder how we got here and why we must leave, they constantly assess and reassess the input the contemporary moment throws our way. It is not often I feel tender affection for a book, but Edlow has created a space of such hope and vitality in these poems, that, long after I put the book down, this splendor extended past the page and softened how I felt moving through this world we occupy together, now."
—Lynn Melnick