Marcella Durand’s next book, The Temple of Happiness, is forthcoming from Black Square Editions fall 2026. Her book, A Winter Triangle, received the 2024 Poetic Justice Institute Prize (Fordham University Press, 2025). She is the co-editor with Jennifer Firestone of Other Influences: The Untold History of Avant-Garde Feminist Poetry (MIT Press, 2024).

Suzan Frecon is known for abstract oil paintings and works on paper that—as she describes her practice—“speak for themselves.” Made over long stretches of time, her work invites the viewer’s sustained attention: these, she says, “are not pictures that you look at. They are paintings that you experience.”

Turn on candle
to face nest of trees
flanked by rock
of so many layers

 

Marcella Durand is the author of The Prospect (Delete Press, 2020) and a recent recipient of the C.D. Wright Award in Poetry from the Foundation of Contemporary Art.

"Metaphor Exchange," "The Prospect," "Earth’s Horizon"

MARCELLA DURAND's new chapbook, Rays of the Shadow, is out this fall from Tent Editions.

Marcella Durand's latest publications is Le Jardin de M. (Garden of M.), translated by Olivier Brossard into French (éditions joca seria, 2016). Her other books include Deep Eco Pré, a collaboration with Tina Darragh, AREA, Traffic & Weather, Western Capital Rhapsodies, City of Ports and Lapsus Linguae.

Marcella Durand is the author of AREA and Traffic & Weather. Her collaboration with Tina Darragh, Deep Eco Pre, is forthcoming this winter from Little Red Leaves.

Marcella Durand is currently the editor of the Poetry Project Newsletter and the co-editor of an anthology of contemporary French poetry (Talisman, forthcoming).

the kind of disturbance that comes up when flying
over a kind of disturbance that startled: believe it

s called "turbulence" and occurs when flying over

turb and slowed down by excess that is the kind of

f over viewed out the tiny window shuttered in plastic

as though in a giant plastic wrap when believe it oh

y believe it like finding a bottle of bleach under yr seat

Remarkably, I write to you on a day
that would most like to remain a place,

which despite rain could be an active time,

when we could all be so productive

taking samples of hair, nails, and skin,

growing them inside our desk blenders.

You’d use a food processor yourself,