Rae Gouirand is the author of eight titles of poetry and nonfiction, including Glass is Glass Water is Water (Spork Press, 2018), Little Hour (Swan Scythe Press, 2022), and a forthcoming book-length poem The Velvet Book (Cornerstone Press, 2024). She leads several longrunning independent workshops in northern California and online, including the cross-genre workshop Scribe Lab, and lectures in the Department of English at UC-Davis.

Other poems by Rae Gouirand in Verse Daily:
November 14, 2015:   "Love" "This is the crack: I don't have to ask..."
June 18, 2010:   "Ice Plant" "All the transparence of the old..."

Books by Rae Gouirand:

Other poems on the web by Rae Gouirand:
Five poems
Two poems
Two poems
Three poems
"Ghazal With Your Mouth"
Two poems
Two poems
"https://www.tupeloquarterly.com/poetry/rae-gouirand-inscription-iridaceae-you/"
Two poems
Two poems
Two poems
Two poems
"Vermilion Border"
"Ten Thousand"
"Long Exposure"
"Arils on Velvet"
"Language"
Six poems

Rae Gouirand's Website.

About Little Hour:

"Rae: lexical powerhouse. Rae: scientist of intimacies. The words burst as though the poet could not contain them."
—Thylias Moss

"Her capacity for eloquence is as vast as her rhetoric is supple."
—Raymond McDaniel

"Gouirand's voice is hypnotic and potent."
—Natalie Eilbert

"Hers is a new music, indeed a new order of language altogether."
—Richard Howard