Tina Schumann is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Boneyard Heresies, winner of the 2023 Moon City Press Poetry Award; Praising the Paradox (Red Hen Press) finalist in the National Poetry Series; Requiem. A Patrimony of Fugues (Diode Editions) winner of the Diode Chapbook Competition and As If (Parlor City Press) winner of the Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize. She is editor of the IPPY-award winning anthology Two Countries. U.S. Daughters and Sons of Immigrant Parents (Red Hen) and poetry editor for Wandering Aengus Press. Her work received the American Poet Prize and runner-up status in the 2023 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize from The Missouri Review and the Terrain.org poetry contest. Poems have appeared since 1999 in venues such as The American Poetry Review, Ascent, Catamaran, Cimarron Review, Hunger Mountain, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Missouri Review, Nimrod, Poetry Daily, Rattle, Southern Humanities Review, Verse Daily, and read on NPR's The Writer's Almanac.

Other poems by Tina Schumann in Verse Daily:
July 9, 2023:   "Self-Portrait with Blacktop, Heron, and Doubt" "I thought I might start believing in God. Not again, but for the first time...."
April 7, 2020:   "Another Sunday" "And the eggs have been broken...."
November 28, 2019:   "Calculations" "Myself..."
July 2, 2017:   "Repository" "Is this what the body becomes?..."

Other poems on the web by Tina Schumann:
Six poems
Two poems
"Dear Morning Commuters"
Four poems
Three poems
"Wednesday"
"Van Gogh in Chicago"
"Sunday"
"Rehab Fugue #1"

Tina Schumann's Website.

About Boneyard Heresies:

"Tina Schumann's Boneyard Heresies bridges the gulf between the living and the dead. One imagines the divide to be insurmountable yet these poems with their vast imagination, bravery, and power of description demonstrate 'how ... the actual / and the evoked converge.' These poems are lived-in, copious with earthly things, tangible with the 'reverberations of other lives.' They travel, yet they reside comfortably in the in-between, the limbo, the hiatus, and, in turn, through memory, dreams, evocation and storytelling, they transcend."
—Joseph O. Legaspi

"The poems in Boneyard Heresies are smart, funny, and chiseled. They look behind the curtain of the self; the voice both conceals and reveals. The poems are tied to the past and the present, while the poet uses a microscope to move the psychic distance closer or further away. Schumann stays attentive to ways the inward can find passage into the immediacy of lived experience. Nothing is preordained, but the process of transformation is there in poem after poem."
—Sean Singer

"'I am a Time Machine,' writes Tina Schumann. And it's true, this collection of poems brings past and present intimately and gloriously together, jostling inside the speaker. What is inherited and what must be borne speak to each other to create a tender portrait: a 'history that was never yours,' Schumann writes. Family, desire, and loss—'the hard gulp of fact'—are lovingly and bluntly examined. The poems about the death of the mother make me weep in their authenticity. This is a fine book by a poet with a sharp eye and an open heart."
—Fleda Brown

"'Straight talker/ and midnight caller'—Tina Schumann is both. In every poem, a poignant moment, carried our way by a steely eye and a tender heart. Boneyard Heresies is a treasure, its poems lasting far beyond their moments, reminding us of the astonishing buoyancy of the spirit."
—Nance Van Winckel