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Erika Meitner

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Queens, NY, The United States

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http://erikameitner.com

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Erika Meitner is the author of 7 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); 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; and Useful Junk (BOA Editions, 2022). Her most recent book, Assembled Audience, is due out from Milkweed Editions in Sept 2026. She is currently a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches creative writing.

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	Holy Moly Carry Me (American Poets Continuum, 166) 4.32 avg rating — 256 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 4.07 avg rating — 147 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 4.16 avg rating — 110 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 — 94 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 4.19 avg rating — 74 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) 4.48 avg rating — 40 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
	Assembled Audience: Poems it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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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