Molly Tenenbaum is the author of four previous books of poems: Mytheria (Two Sylvias, 2017); The Cupboard Artist (Floating Bridge, 2012); Now (Bear Star, 2007); and By a Thread (Van West & Co., 2000). Her chapbook/artist book, Exercises to Free the Tongue (2014), a collaboration with artist Ellen Ziegler, combines poems with archival materials about her grandparents, ventriloquists on the vaudeville circuit. Her poems have appeared in The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Best American Poetry, New England Review, the North American Review, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.

Other poems by Molly Tenenbaum in Verse Daily:
September 13, 2008:   "Difficult Speech: Welcome" "Come all you periwinkles and brilliantines..."
December 4, 2007:   "My New Life" "I've been in you..."
July 3, 2007:   "For My Biographers, Hints of My Lover" " Earth, air, the whole astronomy, more..."
December 4, 2004:  "To My New Life" "I've been in you / a while now so..."

Books by Molly Tenenbaum:

Other poems on the web by Molly Tenenbaum:
"What Have You Not Done Yet?"
"Afternoon Off"
Two poems
Two poems
"This Poem a Path You Were Walking All Along"
"Everywhere in the House"
"Sounds Heard from Inside the Ashes Box"
"How Long Have You Been Teaching Banjo?"
Two poems
Three poems
"Deep in the Summer Night, a Rustling in the Leaves Outside the Bedroom Window"

Molly Tenenbaum's Website.

About The Arborists:

"Rilke wrote, 'The things of this world... seem to need us.' Molly Tenenbaum, better than any poet I know, hears the call of things—banjos, clematis, paintings of chickens—and translates for us their happiness and pathos. She brings this genius to The Arborists, set in a time of great personal loss and romantic discovery. This is that rare and wondrous collection that takes my breath—deeply moving, effervescent, utterly original and alive."
—Kathleen Flenniken

"Tenenbaum's poems are lyrical, tightly woven, at times whimsical. They are powerful poems of a mother's passing, of a brother's face, of a dad's collapse. The natural world of vines, trees, flowers, pawed creatures is strongly present, as is domestic life, and the poet's life as a banjo player and teacher. In this work images are stacked, stitched, and intertwined, making each poem a mesmerizing read, a piece of music."
—Priscilla Long

"With a deep, underlying music, the poems in The Arborists reflect the world's detail. Tenenbaum calls hornets 'little cartographers, ' writes a biography in banjo, and remembers 'how we used to lose our nozzles.' This is a world to be richly lost in-where a friend says, 'Can I quit my job yesterday?' and the cat is a 'weather report.' The Arborists asks what to do with the artifacts of a life, and answers: Craft them into poems."
—Kelli Russell Agodon