Lynne Knight is the author of four poetry chapbooks and five full-length poetry collections, the most recent of which, The Persistence of Longing, was published by Terrapin Books. Her work has appeared in a number of journals, including Kenyon Review, Poetry, and Southern Review. Her awards and honors include publication in Best American Poetry, the Prix de l'Alliance Française 2006, a Poetry Society of America Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, the 2009 Rattle Poetry Prize, and an NEA grant. I Know (Je sais), her translation with the author Ito Naga of his Je sais, appeared from Sixteen Rivers Press in 2013.

Other poems by Lynne Knight in Verse Daily:
October 8, 2016:   "Dream Circuit" "There was a man whose dreams I could have listened to..."
May 22, 2007:   "Afterbirth" " There's a look of panic on his face...."
June 13, 2006:   "Cell Talk" " I ate and ate, all mouth...."
September 27, 2005:   "Vermont Barn" " The barn is so weathered it may collapse..."
February 16, 2005:  "Letter To An Old Lover" "What kind of quarrel would go on so long..."
February 6, 2005:  "A Sentimental Education" "Then I thought all I had to do was close my eyes..."
May 24, 2004:  "First Year of My Mother's Dementia" "I opened the door and flicked on the lights..."
April 16, 2004:  "To a Friend Unable to Write" "It looks like nothing much, a scene..."
August 2, 2003:  "Body in Late Meditation" "An hour from now the river will be grey..."
June 13, 2003:  "Driving Through the Valley" "Nothing all that strange about the scene..."
February 18, 2003 (Quarter 2 favorite):  "Letter After the Diagnosis" "This is the window I love best. It looks down..."
December 10, 2002:  For a Friend Whose Love Has Left "For a week now, the deer has been roaming...."
November 25, 2002:  Letter After the Diagnosis "This is the window I love the best. It looks down..."

Books by Lynne Knight:

Other poems on the web by Lynne Knight:
"Water Child"
"Year's End. Year's Beginning."
"Against Order"
"The Twenty-year Workshop"
Five poems
Three poems
Four poems
Six poems
Ten poems

Lynne Knight's Website.

About The Language of Forgetting:

"Lynne Knight's mindful, lyrical book reads like a heart-and-soul video, Season One. Her poetry thrills and intrigues, warns and shares, always in language that catches."
—Al Young

"There is no forgetting, really, in The Language of Forgetting. Instead, Lynne Knight holds on to what she cannot forget, all in the careful, caring language of remembering. The chaos of childhood, the bewilderment of parenting, the complications and contentments of long love, the unabating failures of the aging body, the sorrows that come with simply being alive--these are her subjects, rendered in poems at once painful and tender and necessary."
—Andrea Hollander

"The Language of Forgetting is inspired by a fascination with the accumulated secrets lying under the many stories of a lived life. This is thriving, memorable poetry."
—Forrest Hamer