Magdalene & the Mermaids

cover of Magdalene & the Mermaids by Elizabeth Kate Switaj

Paper Kite Press, 2009.
Now available for purchase.

Read a sample poem at Poetry Friends.



Reviews:
by Julia Glassman at Feministe
by Kristin Conrad at Feminist Review
by Gautami Tripathy at Everything Distils Into Reading
at The Sound of Poetry Review


Chapbooks



Shanghai (has more capital)
a five-poem e-chap from Gold Wake Press

Cover Image: The Broken Sanctuary
The Broken Sanctuary: Nature Poems

available from Ypolita Press

Galena Spinel
free .PDF of MFA Thesis




Individual Poems

Tina's Night Thoughts
at Joe Linker's Sestina blog


Inch Beach and Famine Feast
in Poets for Living Waters

Fallen
in Black Market Review, Issue 2

Festering Song, Crash & Course, Becoming Oceanic, and Against the Notion Rain Falls Up
in Mayday Magazine Issue 2 (Winter 2010)

Nine of Wants and ELL Room Window
in SparkBright Issue 3 (Winter 2009)

Instructions to a Rapist, Subspecies Variation, and The Weimar Pizzeria
in The Smoking Poet (Winter 2009/10)



Profile and poems: These Unbroken Bones, On Foot, Train Sound Triptych, Layers & Plates, First Cicada Death, Red Rock Gorge, Morning in Xinxiang, and In Nanyang
at Outsider Writers

Kannon & the Pendulum
in Blue Fifth Review (Fall 2009)

Crossing the Manhattan Bridge, Justice, First Not Sex, Over River, Flash Flood, August Moon, and Inch Beach
in Blue Turtle Crossing, Fall Edition (October 2009)




CompuSutra
in EOAGH 5 (October 2009)

"Two Visions of the Finite in Seattle"
in Gloom Cupboard 106 (September 2009)

Seized
in Incantations in Blue (September 2009)

Sulaymaniyah and Memory-- a Rainy Night
in As Per La Roman De La Rose, For Example, Edited by Arpine Konyalian Grenier
for Big Bridge 14 (August 2009)

Cotton Sweatshirt
in Diverse Voices Quarterly, Vol I. Issues 1-2 (August 2009)

Oyster\World\Woman and Phalanges
in wunderkammer, collection week (June-July 2009)

Eugene, OR
in Black Oak Presents (Summer 2009)

Summer's Orders
in qarrtsiluni, Economy Issue (June-Aug 2009)

Carpal REM
in Ottawa Arts Review (June 2009)

Queen of Wands and Old Soul Mates
in Listenlight, Issue 19 (Spring 2009)


Survivors: Rabbits, Butterfly, and Koi
in Galatea Resurrects, Issue 12 (May 2009), The Critic Writes Poems

Beyond Organic Groceries
in Faraway Journal, Volume 3, Issue 2 (Spring 2009)

Losing Season
in Slog (March 20, 2009)

Season/al Master/ed
in Aquila Review, Volume 2 (Spring 2009)

Henan Highway Stretch
in foam:e, Issue 6 (March 2009)

Alisha Marie, Cave of Real (Deep, Consumer Society, Cul-de-sac, and Dawn Marks
in wheelhouse magazine, Issue 7 (Winter/Spring 2009)

"Unforming: a Five Poem Series"
in WomenWriters.net (January 2009)

"Chant for the Whole", "Titanoboa cerrejonensis", and "Zales/Jared/Kay"
in Counterexample Poetics (February 2009)

"An Airport of Three Years Ago", "Eight of Wands", "Le Soleil", and "The World in Tarot"
in viviparous blenny, Volume 1 (January 2009)

"Erratic & Growth"
in Literary Mary, Issue 1 (January 2009)

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"No Private Shattered World"
in The Smoking Poet, Issue 9 (Winter 2008-2009)

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"Minerva Dressing", "One of Barbara Longhi's Virgins", and "Berkeley"
in tinfoildresses, Issue 1 (Winter 2008)

"Wearing", "Fog from I-90", "Abutment", "The Rapist's Son", and "October Head|ines"
in Otoliths, Issue 11 (Southern Spring 2008).

"Fruit of Two Summers" and "Iron Rich & Tighly-Packed"
in Makeout Creek, Issue 2 (October 2008).

"Turn of the Word"
in apt: an online literary journal, Issue 16 (Fall 2008)

"Ope\ning\ - Op/ening/"
in Ophelia Street (October 15, 2008).

"Would Not Be Like God" and "Love Growth Poem"
in Listenlight, Issue 17 (September 2008).

"The Long & Short of Third to First" and "The Binding of Your Words"
in [grain short/grain long], Issue 1 (September 2008)

"Found Sign" and "In Praise of Loose Petals"
in Sous Rature, Issue 1 (August 2008)

"& Rats Dance"
in Exquisite Corpse (August 2008)

"Spring Back" and "Utah Crater Mystery Cracked"
in O Tempora! Magazine, Issue 1 (August 2008)

"What Cedar Cannot"
in CEllA's Round Trip, Issue 1 (Summer 2008)

"Rising Gathering Bolts", "Rain Specter", and "Silencsis"
in Origami Condom, Issue 10 (2 August 2008).

"\Longhu\" and "\Bushwick\"
in Cordite Poetry Review, Issue 28: Secret Cities (July 2008)

"Baby Crush", "A Bush Wedding\House Party", "Shooting from Ilium", and "When You Are Tempted to Pet Your Child"
in Gloom Cupboard, Print Issue 3 (May 2008)

"Critical Acclaim"
in Gloom Cupboard, Issue 37 (May 23, 2008)

"Arb(r)utus" and "Planted to Survive"
in Clockwise Cat, Issue 9 (May 7,2008)

"Road Signs ," "After Last Mutation," and "Under the Weather"
in Unlikely 2.0 (May 1, 2008)

"Millipede Down", "How To Store", "Seven Leave Cult Cave in Russia", and "In Space Separating"
in Otoliths, Issue 9 (Southern Autumn 2008)

"Among Renoir's Umbrellas"
in wheelhouse magazine, Issue 5 (Winter 2008)

"The Farm (Joan Miró)", "De Chirico's Uncertainty (of the Poet", "Not a Haiku", and "Because His Funeral Was A Week Before"
in Listenlight, Issue 15 (March 2008)

"Day Sleep", "Particulate Matter", "The Lovers Change-- Together", "Under Maidenhair Tree", "Late Waxing Gibbous", and "Prelude Here (The Roof)"
in Eleventh Transmission, Issue 2.3 (March 2008)

Model Assignment
in Octaves Magazine,Issue 1.3 (March 2008)

"For Voices", "Last Witness", "Maidenhair Library Lane", and "To Fallen Leaves"
in Sacramento Poetry, Art, and Music

"In Season", "On the Chair, Forgotten Name", and "Overeducated Girl"
in Venereal Kittens
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"The Outer Park", "The Saved", and "The Three Brides"
in Philament, Issue 11 (December 2007)

"Treatise on the Subjectivity of Heat"
in Marginalia, Issue 3.2 (Fall 2007)

"Morning After Fear"
in In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself, Volume 7 (2007)

In Our Own Words


"When Zombies Reach Rockaway"
in The Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poety, Volume 5 (2007)

"Evening Run in Summer Hum", "To A Savior", "Sky Built", and "Weeded Embrace"
in Offcourse Literary Journal, Issue 31 (September 2007)

"King of Pentacles"
in Existere, Fall 2007

"Model Sister", "Home from the War", "The Night Before I Don't Give Up", "The Devil", "Judgment", and "Four of Pentacles"
in Sentinel Poetry, Issue 58 (October 2007)

"On the Roof at Midnight"
in Openned

"This Heart, Fall" and "Jefferson Square Park"
in HazMat Review, Issue 9.1 (Spring 2007)

A Corner of Shengda Campu an American Cherrie
in WTF Magazine

"Getting Out of the Bath"
in Don't Look, Issue 4

"Career Crisis Alchemist"
in Hamilton Stone Review

"7/7", "Sophia's Summer Night", "Tinted Rose", "Rebecca's Last Words", and "F Train Between Storm & Sunset"
in wire sandwich

"3", "2", and "Z"
in Otoliths, Issue 4 (Southern Summer 2007)
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"Muggy Summer Station", "Anna's New York Design", and "Written in the Preshocks"
in Xelas Magazine, Issue 1.1 (December 2006)

"Nights That Don't Cool Down", "Bleeding Again", "Scarlet's Lughnasadh 2006", and "Bearable Brightness of . . ."
in melancholia's tremulous dreadlocks

"September Afternoon in Central Park" and "Suvivor's Bones"
in Euphemism

"Spring Departures", "Cafeteria Counter", "Covered Eating Walkway", and "Ghost On Cloud Taker's Route"
in Listenlight, Issue 2
(Audio Files: Spring Departures, Cafeteria Counter, Covered Eating Walkway, and Ghost on Cloud Taker's Route)

"In Autumn"
originally printed in California Quarterly

"Sulfur Cycle"
originally printed in Art:Mag

"Strained Nerves"
in The Subway Chronicles

"Kitchen Man" and "New Discipline"
originally appeared in Tin Lustre Mobile; reprinted in The Blind Man's Rainbow

"The Chase"
in Convergence (Winter 2006)
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"Midori"
in Transverse 5

"Linen Invocation", "Love Rite", "Indigo Amy", "Sunshine City View", and "Atmosphere Shrine"
in The Other Voices International Project (2005)

"Lady of the Three Accompaniments", "Mid-Atlantic Ridge", "Every Time . . .Important", and "Friday Night"
in winamop

"Though Misconduct Cleared"
originally appeared in The Wissahickon (2005)

Beige in Nihongo
in antimuse (2005)

Paintball, Three on a Famous Bridge, and Wearing
in HiNgE, Issue 6.2 (July/August 2005)

"Your Door", "Aubade (Revelation)", and "Edge of the Tracks"
in Ascent Aspirations

"Saturday Walk By Digital Toys", "Drinking Match", and "Circuit Lies"
in Unlikely 2.0 (July 2005)

"Pub in Toyota-Shi"
in The Fifteen Project, Issue 6 (Oct. 2005)

Swamp Ophelia, Cliff Dweller, and Shopping Malls And (For Fifteen Hundred Yen)
in The Argotist Online

Burnt Out
in A Darker Vision

No Aria and Fireworks
originally printed in Zillah

"Mother & Child", "Otaki", and "Okazaki River"
in whimperbang

"Looking Through the Blind Slat Crack"
in Neon Highway, Issue 10 (July 2005)

"Pre-millenial Skyline"
in Perigee
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"Duet for Flutes"
originally printed in Aesthetica

"Lights Out", "Morning After Fear", "Group Flight", "From Mountain to Sunken", "Conception" and Buffet in Hiroshima
originally appeared in Tin Lustre Mobile

"Pentecost Here"
in Seeking the Lotus 3

"Rita Hayworth's Final Dream"
in Dreamvirus (Winter 2004)

"Claire", "Chicken Skin", and "Over Thirty"
in horse less press
(Audio Files: Claire, Chicken Skin, and Over Thirty)

"Concrete Constructions", "Deictic & Existential" (audio), and "Eternal"
in GutCult

"Flower (Anjo)" and "Folded In Your Lap"
in The Diagram

Meditation by Waterfall and Obon Shower
in Electric Yeti

"Memento"
in eratio

"Decor" and "Orihime and Hikoboshi at the Turn of this Century"
originally appeared in Xenoyoke Magazine

"In Love Again" and "Melissa Has a Surplus of Parents"
in Crannóg, Issue 6 (Summer 2004)


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