Virginia Konchan, author of two poetry collections, Any God Will Do and The End of Spectacle (Carnegie Mellon, 2018 and 2020); a collection of short stories, Anatomical Gift (Noctuary Press, 2017); and four chapbooks, as well as coeditor (with Sarah Giragosian) of Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems (University of Akron Press, 2022), her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Believer, Boston Review, and elsewhere.

Other poems by Virginia Konchan in Verse Daily:
May 17, 2018:   "Mary Shelley" "You are the furthest thing..."

Books by Virginia Konchan:

Other poems on the web by Virginia Konchan:
"Wheel of Fortune"
"The Equivocal World"
Four poems
"Addendum"
Five poems
Two poems
"Hard Night"
Four poems
"Helen Keller at the Rodeo"
Three poems
Ten poems
"Golden Corral"
Two poems
Two poems
"Mon Guerlain"
Two poems
Two poems
Two poems
Two poems
"Suburbia"
Three poems
"Epithalamium"
Two poems
Two poems
"Christina's Field"
"I Can't Go On, I'll Go On"
Five poems

Virginia Konchan's Website.

About Any God Will Do:

"Urgent, whip-smart—each poem opens like shaken champagne."
—John Emil Vincent

"Konchan's gloriously scathing and exhilarating second book mines the flotsam and jetsam of failed romance ('O eros, put away your bully stick') and the god-awful 'claptrap' of ersatz culture. Lioness-fierce ('I am not a marble goddess whose breasts resemble / bayonets of Spring), acerbic and magical ('the moon is in her stirrups / and the doctor's prognosis is time'), Any God Will Do arrives on the scene, all systems go, as a lover's lament, a fist-fast roller coaster, and a rocket-blast: hold onto your seat!"
—Cyrus Cassells

"Konchan, a self-confessed 'atheist who says her prayers,' is also a fast-talking phrase-maker of the first order who can switch poetic registers from the aporetic to the operatic in the pause after a period. Her 'fallback plan / is style,' and although she claims, 'I have reached the end / of my ability to troubleshoot,' these stylish poems shoot for trouble and nail it. Any God Will Do is a dictionary of desire, a breviary of post-religious bravery, and a book chockablock with lines that prove Konchan right when she writes, 'I interrupt my programming / to say something original.'"
—Stephen Kampa