Anne Marie Rooney is the author of Spitshine (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2012), as well as two chapbooks. Her poetry has been twice featured in the Best American Poetry anthology, and has been the recipient of the Iowa Review Award, the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, and others. Born and raised in New York City, she currently lives in Baltimore, where she is studying Expressive Arts Therapy.

Other poems by Anne Marie Rooney in Verse Daily:
March 8, 2012:   "Domestic" "There is a house to me. When Saturday leaves a gradient..."
January 9, 2012:   "the Theta Xi chapter" "Confer to comfort: can each girl be first..."
January 23, 2011:   "First Domestic" "There is a house to me. When Saturday leaves a gradient..."

Books by Anne Marie Rooney:

Other poems on the web by Anne Marie Rooney:
Three poems
Three poems
Two poems
"Brink"
Two poems
"Palinode"
Three poems
"Sea change"
"Wreck"
Three poems
"Instructions for Wooing Me (Monster That I Am)"

About No Beautiful:

"Anne Marie Rooney's haunting poetry comes up against that which dehumanizes. It is the language of reverb as it resounds in the body. 'Do not dream of faces like roads / That can be climbed,' she writes. We are always in proximity to something in Rooney's poems and that something soaks in or overshadows or crushes. In this unforgettable work, recovery is the mystery nonetheless."
—Claudia Rankine

"Anne Marie Rooney's phenomenal second collection gathers and transforms the vulnerable truth of lived experience into a deep, fractal genealogy of girlhood, love, loss, and form. But even as Rooney stuns and alchemizes the present moment with her rare organicism and formal awareness of language, it is our perception of form itself that these poems demonstrate rewilding."
—Lo Kwa Mei-en