Simone Muench is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowship and the author of seven full-length books, including Lampblack & Ash (Sarabande, 2005; winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize), Wolf Centos (Sarabande, 2014), and The Under Hum (Black Lawrence Press, 2024), cowritten with Jackie K. White. Her recent collaborative poems are forthcoming in North American Review, Missouri Review, swamp pink, Pleiades, Phoebe, and elsewhere.
Poetry
Spring 2025
Kati Horna Tells an Untitled Story
In the beginning, the woman leaves the bedfor the umbrella. She leaves the sculptedmask stuck to the pillow. Her body is lithe,in progress: supine, seated, standing. Then, the stairs,antlered in […]
Poetry
Spring 2025
Olga and Joyce’s Unspeakable Beasts
An assemblageGrief is a cruel flower, vampire flower, red pearl flower shining between teeth like a scar opening again. A labyrinthof tentacles trembling in sea-foam haunts us, lining up primitive […]