Selena Spier is a graduate of Columbia University’s MA/EdM program in counseling psychology. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in EPOCH, Palette Poetry, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City, where she works at the nonprofit Brooklyn Poets and cocurates the KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Series.
Poetry
Spring 2025
Even in the City, Watching an Old Man Dance with a Plastic Skeleton in the Times Square Subway Station, I long for the City
The Kenyon Review · “Even in the City . . .” by Selena Spier He’s dressed her in a flamenco skirt,threaded red carnations through the aperturesof her skull. I’ll always […]
Poetry
Spring 2025
There Is No Light at the End of the Tunnel Because the Tunnel Is Made of Light
The Kenyon Review · “There Is No Light” by Selena Spier How could I be anything other than gentle?I’ve never even broken a bone.Though the angels are still terrifying,coming every […]