Hilary Sideris's poems have appeared in recent issues of The American Journal of Poetry, Barrow Street, Bellevue Literary Review, Okay Donkey, OneArt, Room, Salamander, and Sixth Finch, among others. She is the author most recently of Un Amore Veloce (Kelsay Books 2019), The Silent B (Dos Madres Press 2019), and Animals in English, poems after Temple Grandin (Dos Madres Press 2020).

Other poems by Hilary Sideris in Verse Daily:
March 18, 2020:   "Magdalene" "It takes a woman..."
January 22, 2014:   "The Violins" "Grandad Gus wrapped..."

Books by Hilary Sideris:

Other poems on the web by Hilary Sideris:
"Apology to a Collie"
Two poems
"Dwarf Elephant"
Five poems
Two poems
"Semicolon"
Four poems
"A Funeral in Brooklyn"
"Jennifer"
Two poems
"Yuletide"
"Hot Plate Sally"
Five poems
"Stones"
"Stronger Than Dirt"
Two poems
"Park"
Three poems
Two poems

Hilary Sideris's Website.

Hilary Sideris on Twitter.

About Animals in English:

"'Cows saved me.' Hilary Sideris writes in Animals in English. 'One summer in high/ school I saw a herd/ go through the chute/ to get their shots.' It's sound that drives these persona poems, her new book in the voice of Temple Grandin, a spokesperson for both animal rights and autism, making us aware, for example, of flip-over disease, where chickens are bred to be so fat, their food mixed with painkillers, they fall over and die. Sideris' work in this collection as always, is spare and elegant. There are several poems which refer to her squeeze machine, the parallels between slaughter chutes and the calming machine useful for those on the spectrum. One can’t help but consider the irony of using words to attempt to express the thoughts of someone who struggled to communicate verbally, but Sideris handles the challenge skillfully. These are poems about animals, often with reference to human cruelty and misperception—horses, cows, pigs, and others—as with Hans the Horse, better at reading his trainer than understanding math. They are also poems about coming of age, the construction of the brain, and from the pen of this very special poet, the struggles of a very special public figure."
—Susana H. Case

"Autism is a survival trait among prey animals. It's a rational instinct for separating a detail from the whole of something because a detail can kill you, while the whole of everything will let you live—most of the time. Sideris too focuses on those magic details. And in each of these short, lusty poems, she weaves the detail back into a fuller picture, now sharing its space with revelation to prepare us for the quickly approaching hour when we humans will become the prey animals, the shy but curious feast of our own predation."
—Barrett Warner