Beth Bachmann is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow and author of three books in the Pitt Poetry Series: Temper, winner of the Association of Writers & Writing Program’s Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and Claremont Graduate University’s Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Do Not Rise, winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award; and CEASE, winner of the Virginia Quarterly Review’s Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry (fall 2018). She lives in New York City.
Poetry
Sept/Oct 2021
Face
Facial recognition is encoded, or acquired, from birth. Newborn infants will stare at a face longer than any other pattern. A face may mean mother, milk, or passage. We perceive […]
2023 Short Fiction Contest
Spring 2024
The First Robot
The first weapons of war began as toys, thinks the horse in the field as he tests his unmanned drone. Many scholars credit the fifth-century-BCE Greek philosopher Archytas with creating […]
Nature's Nature
May/June 2017
plenty
make me lonely as an animal with everything to eat in winter dark honey locust bark torn from the tree sometimes I feel like a motherless field you lose yourself […]
Nature's Nature
May/June 2017
nature
the landscape is triggered with post-romantic stress the world is unmastered again all we see is light from the bomb terror comes before horror because thereis no reason not to […]
Poetry
Sept/Oct 2015
hamartia
the way to utter hallelujah is to err doesn’t everyone have one bird they like better than the rest me the one with the mouth full of a myth of […]
Poetry
Sept/Oct 2015
surface
we did not love the land enough to leave it untouched how could we the land with its continuous slow motion like a tongue the land at fault quaking open […]
Poetry
Sept/Oct 2015
location (echo)
you held me like a land under fire you would not surrender we were part of the movement and we were not moving the place we were raised if ever […]
Writing in Code: Literature and the Genome
Winter 2006
Roots
In the garden, fruit dangles from the tree.In Darwin’s Species, man hangs from the tree. Limbs tattooed with linked syntax and signs,the linguist derives crude slang from the tree. Each […]
Writing in Code: Literature and the Genome
Winter 2006
Gene Mapping
Imagine recovering a box of letters addressed to your father.At first, the language is lost, written in the code of old lovers:nicknames, allusion, errors in the script. The woman, with […]
Writing in Code: Literature and the Genome
Winter 2006
Working at the Genetic Testing Center
The voice on the other end of the line wants to know our motive;that is, there’s a long history of social research in the neighborhoods east of the hospital where […]
Beth Bachmann
Beth Bachmann is the author of two books from the Pitt Poetry Series: Temper (2009),winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize and Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Do Not Rise […]