Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award Winner of the Foreword Poetry Book of the Year AwardWinner of a Texas Institute of Letters Award Winner of the Eric Hoffer Book Award in Poetry Chloe Honum's brilliant first book The Tulip-Flame traces an identity forming within radically divergent but interlocking systems: a family traumatized by the mother's suicide, a failed relationship, the practice of ballet, a garden. Honum in every case transfigures emotion by way of elegant language and formal restraint. --Claudia Emerson

The Tulip-Flame (New Poetry)

Literature & Fiction

Honum, Chloe

Poetry

Cleveland State University Poetry Center

Poetry. Women's Studies. Editors' Selection from the 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. Then Winter vividly traces the speaker's journey in a psychiatric treatment facility. With precision and honesty, Honum cuts through the climate of silence surrounding mental illness and treatment. These fiercely intimate poems draw the reader into the boundaried world of a psychiatric ward, where moments of darkness exist alongside moments of humor and deep connection, and render the natural world beyond the facility's windows with piercing mystery and beauty.

Then Winter (Editors Selection/Frost Place Competitio)

Bull City Press

“The Lantern Room is stunning and harrowing, built of poems that interrogate the wound of grief, the wound of love, and insist on asking an impossible question. As Honum writes, ‘The light is slippery. Everything hums. It is so important to go on naming’; it is this slipperiness— with language, mood, memory, desire—that keeps us a little off-kilter as we feel our way through the tenuous intensities of sorrow and beauty, sometimes dreamy and sometimes despairing and also, despite it all, sometimes shimmering— ‘O cold, dicey blooms’— with hopefulness.” 
—Allison Titus

The Lantern Room

Tupelo Press

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The Tulip-Flame (New Poetry)

Then Winter (Editors Selection/Frost Place Competitio)

The Lantern Room