Lindsay Turner is the author of the poetry collection Songs & Ballads (Prelude Books, 2018) and the translator of several books of contemporary Francophone poetry and philosophy, including works by Stéphane Bouquet, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Anne Dufourmantelle, and Ryoko Sekiguchi. Her second book of poems, The Upstate, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press in fall 2023. Turner lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where she is Assistant Professor in English and Creative Writing at Case Western Reserve University. She is currently working on a collection of short stories, The Worst Animal.
Fiction
Spring 2023
The Bear
I was sitting on the cabin’s porch watching the moon rise between two tall pines and H was in the kitchen making hot chocolate when there was a noise in […]
Poetry
Fall 2013
Late Afternoon into Evening
Never thought I'd say this but it lasts too long unfair the steady confidence when so much is precarious else under the shadow of the dark clouds over the hill […]
Poetry
Fall 2013
The Mockingbird
Summer cites itself always there was never a first one always slept in the hours light inserted like a door wedge made of dark blue air the window open an […]
Spring 2015
Contemplating Apocalypse: On the Work of Etel Adnan
To look at the sea is to become what one is: An Etel Adnan Reader is a milestone and a monument: a milestone for the ongoing recognition of a writer who, despite her prescience, relevance, and power, has remained marginal for many American readers
Summer 2014
“All sunless gestures will remain oblique”: On Jackqueline Frost’s The Antidote
In 1927, Virginia Woolf traveled with friends to watch a total eclipse of the sun from Yorkshire’s Bardon Fell, above Richmond.