Susan Terris' recent books include FAMILIAR TENSE (Marsh Hawk Press, 2019), Take Two: Film Studies (Omnidawn Publishing), Memos (Omnidawn Publishing); and GHOST OF YESTERDAY (Marsh Hawk Press). She's published seven books of poetry, 16 chapbooks, three artist's books, and one play. A poem of hers appeared in Pushcart Prize XXXI. A poem from Memos was in Best American Poetry 2015. Ms. Terris is editor emerita of Spillway Magazine and a poetry editor at Pedestal Magazine. She lives in San Francisco, except in the summer when she lives by a lake in northern Minnesota.

Other poems by Susan Terris in Verse Daily:
July 18 2015:   "Memo to the Girl in the Body of a Boy" "if bone and bone were split..."

Books by Susan Terris:

Other poems on the web by Susan Terris:
"Sometimes a Horse is Not a Horse"
"Dish of Mashed Peas"
Three poems
Three poems
Two poems
"Selektion: The Painted Girl"
"Old Girl: Self-Portrait in Wool"
Three poems

Susan Terris's Website.

About Familiar Tense:

"Susan Terris is a poet of tensile, particular language and fearless investigation. In this far-reaching book, Terris's gifts of superb observation and word-craft turn in multiple directions--into the myths, stories and realities of childhood; into the myths, stories and rendered lives of figures from science, history, and the arts; into the myths, stories, and (sur)realities of personal experience. This book holds the manyness of selves, both intimate and enlarging; it is also a book of connection, world witness, self-witness, and imaginative expansion."
—Jane Hirshfield