POET
Lucia Perillo
BIOGRAPHY
Lucia Perillo has published four books of poetry, most recently Luck is Luck (Random House 2005), which was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize and won the Kingsley Tufts prize from Claremont University. A book of her essays, I’ve Heard the Vultures Singing, appeared last year. Her new book of poems, Inseminating the Elephant, is due out from Copper Canyon Press in 2009. A former MacArthur fellow, she lives in Olympia, Washington.
POEMS
= First appeared in Poetry magazine.
AUDIO
The Poetry Magazine Podcast
We Don't Have Cold Feet
The editors discuss poems from Katia Kapovich, Lucia Perillo, Don Paterson and more. Plus, Ange Mlinko on poetry and motherhood.
ARTICLES ABOUT LUCIA PERILLO
The Body Mutiny
by Maria McLeod
In this wide-ranging conversation, Lucia Perillo talks about killing coyotes, virtual readings, and what it's like to be a "disabled poet."
BOOKS
Luck is Luck
(Random House)
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