Rae Armantrout

Rae Armantrout’s recent book Go Figure came out from Wesleyan in August of 2024. Her next book, Safe Rooms, will be published by Wesleyan in 2026. Her book Versed won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2010. Armantrout’s poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry, Poetry, The New Yorker, Lana Turner, Granta, and The Nation. She is professor emerita at UC San Diego.

April 2026Critics Page

Francie Shaw with Bob Perelman and Rae Armantrout

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Francie Shaw is a painter living in the Bay Area with her husband Bob Perelman. These two works are from her series “Rex Works,” using collages from the daily comix Rex Morgan M.D. 

Bob Perelman is a poet. His latest book is Chatty Fossils from Roof Books.

Rae Armantrout’s recent book Go Figure came out from Wesleyan in August of 2024. Her next book, Safe Rooms, will be published by Wesleyan in 2026. She is professor emerita at UC San Diego.

Francie Shaw with Bob Perelman and Rae Armantrout

September 2024Poetry

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Rae Armantrout’s latest book, Go Figure, appeared from Wesleyan University Press in 2024. Retired from UC San Diego, she now lives in Everett, WA.

September 2023Poetry

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Rae Armantrout’s most recent book is Finalists (Wesleyan 2022) about which David Woo, writing for the Poetry Foundation, says it “emanates the radiant astonishment of living thought.” Her 2018 book, Wobble, was a finalist for the National Book Award that year. Her other books with Wesleyan include Partly: New and Selected Poems, Just Saying, Money Shot and Versed. In 2010 Versed won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and The National Book Critics Circle Award.

Dec/Jan 21–22Poetry

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Rae Armantrout is the author of fifteen books of poems, including Conjure, a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker award, (Wesleyan, 2020), Wobble (2018), a finalist for the National Book Award, and Versed (2009) which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2010. A new book, Finalists, is coming out from Wesleyan in March of 2022.

Dec/Jan 20–21Poetry

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Rae Armantrout’s most recent book is Conjure (Wesleyan, 2020). She lives in the Seattle area.

June 2014Poetry

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Rae Armantrout's latest book of poems is Just Saying (Wesleyan, 2013). A new book, Itself, is forthcoming in 2015. Armantrout teaches at UC San Diego.

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