Elena Karina Byrne's publications include her fourth book If This Makes You Nervous (Omnidawn, October 2021), Pushcart Prize XXXIII, Best American Poetry, Poetry, The Paris Review, Poetry International, Kyoto Journal, New American Writing, and BOMB. Elena is a private editor, freelance lecturer, the Poetry Consultant & Moderator for The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, and Literary Programs Director for the historic Ruskin Art Club. Under the inspiration of AUSB's MFA program in Writing & Contemporary Media, Elena is completing her first screenplay and collection of "interrupted essays," Voyeur Hour: Poetry, Art, Film, & Desire.

Other poems by Elena Karina Byrne in Verse Daily:
October 17, 2019:   "Underwater Bill Viola & Underwater with You" "It depends on where the coined air comes between you, me, and..."
February 26, 2008:   "Dogma Mask in Favor of Alice" "How many windows can a house bear?..."
June 15, 2007:   "O Mouth Fable" " It darkens in the bride..."
December 21, 2002:  "The Proportion of Broken" "Relentless, I love relentless: relentless..."

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"No, Don't"
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"Deliberate as Thinking is the Rain"
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About Squander:

"If you are lucky enough to be bewitched by Elena Karina Byrne's brilliant poems, then you will travel across time, space, and the ocean of language. In her beautiful new book, Squander, Karina Byrne again douses the reader in her sparkle and luminosity, through poems triggered by Shakespeare, Amy Winehouse, Georgia O'Keefe, and Rilke. There's a driving breathiness and breathlessness in Karina Byrne's poems, as if a voice is haunting your ear, unveiling what a genius mind might see and feel through language. This is Karina Byrne's deepest exploration of language yet; there's no one writing like her and her voice is an essential one in American poetry."
—Victoria Chang

"Ultimately the title of the book tells all—squander, be willing to give, even to waste words; cast the net wide: 'O Obedience like a horse, we are / trained to the bit, mouth-made. Heresy. Here. Say' says Elena Karina Byrne, and she practices with enthusiasm such preachment throughout the book. The intelligence here is always willing to sacrifice itself to energy—'turn a plum into/an orange//word into words'—and the result is an unforgettable exuberance of poetry. And of an enchanting intelligence."
—Bin Ramke

"Fully recognizing that we are numerous, as are the snares and delights of the written word and the influences of history, Elena Karina Byrne's 'Squander' diligently investigates living in language—from attention to responsibility to knowledge—and creates a dedicated space for beauty to interrogate truth, encumbering our sometimes inexplicable world in a net of indelible lineages and connections."
—Maxine Chernoff