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Erika Meitner

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Queens, NY, The United States

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Erika Meitner is the author of 6 books of poems, including Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls (Anhinga Press, 2011); Ideal Cities (Harper Perennial, 2010), which was a 2009 National Poetry Series winner; Copia (BOA Editions, 2014); and Holy Moly Carry Me (BOA Editions, 2018), which was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry, and the winner of the National Jewish Book Award in Poetry. Her most recent book, Useful Junk, is due out from BOA Editions in April of 2022. Her work has appeared most recently in The New Yorker, The Believer,VQR, Orion, The New Republic and elsewhere. She is currently a professor of English at Virginia Tech.

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	Holy Moly Carry Me (American Poets Continuum, 166) 4.32 avg rating — 253 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ideal Cities 4.06 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Useful Junk 4.18 avg rating — 105 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Copia 4.24 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls 4.18 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore 4.30 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vinegar and Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance by Sandra Beasley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John T. Edge (Foreword), W. Ralph Eubanks (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.49 avg rating — 39 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood by Emily Pérez (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nancy Reddy (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Camille T. Dungy (Foreword) 4.54 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Infertilities, a Curation by Elizabeth Horn (Editor), Maria Novotný (Editor), Robin Silbergleid (Editor) 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I want
to tell my son it’s not
shameful to need

something or someone
to help us out of the darkness
when it gets very dark.”
― Erika Meitner

tags: assistance, darkness, depression, difficulties, help, poem, poetry

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“I ate eggs from a chafing dish while the baker
reminded us: the only thing that will hurt you
out here are your own bad decisions”
― Erika Meitner

tags: bad-choices, bad-decisions, choices, decisions, eggs, poem, poetry

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“7. The first time I arrived here, I never thought I am small
and luminous

8. The body, burdened and miraculous

9. The body as thin-nest boundary”
― Erika Meitner

tags: bodies, boundaries, burdens, luminosity, miracles, physicality, poem, poetry, size

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