Page Hill Starzinger lives in New York City. Her first full-length poetry book, Vestigial, selected by Lynn Emanuel to win the Barrow Street Book Prize, was published in Fall 2013. Her chapbook, Unshelter, selected by Mary Jo Bang as winner of the Noemi contest, was published in 2009. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, Fence, West Branch, Pleiades, Volt, and many others.
The Longer Lyric
Nov/Dec 2016
Speculus
To the man pressing the sonogram over my ovary, who is saying it’s completely shut down: it is still part of my body it is alive it is mine. I […]
Nature's Nature: A Gathering of Poetry
May/June 2015
Dive-bomb
Swarming from ocean-green shadow, iridescent turquoise dragonflies gilded copper-silver —devil’s darning needles— sewing together toes and fingers as we sleep, our eyes shuttered ”wool-white as sea foam”: boat people from […]
Poetry
Winter 2008
As an Eighteenth-Century Map
forces us to think of Ohio not as middle but as beginning, as edge, we take each other to the ruined spiral staircase that seems to lead nowhere and ends […]
Poetry
Winter 2008
Alpha Protein
1. In the world of gift you can’t have your cake unless you eat it. — Hyde) Helix a curve on any developable surface screw as long as preload is […]
Poetry
Winter 2008
Poultice
1. Such is the pulse at the table under the conversation. Whorled. A spike driven beneath lids and swirled like an eggbeater. Turtles might live indefinitely—turning their hearts off and […]