ROUGH KNOWLEDGE
Anhinga Press, 2016. Winner, 2014 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry
Author Interview with The Normal School
Two minute video of 2 poems from the book
Anthologies
Then Again: Vintage Photography Reimagined by One Artist and Thirty-One Writers, 2019.
All We Can Hold: a Collection of Poetry on Motherhood. Sage Hill Press, 2016.
Let in the Stars: New Poetry for Children. Manchester Metropolitan University, 2014.
Connections: New York City Bridges in Poetry. P & Q Press, 2012.
Honors
Recipient of Prizes from The Florida Review, The Potomac Review and The Atlantic
Awarded a Florida Individual Artist’s Grant, a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize and a Hackney Literary Award
Residencies held at The Hambidge Center, Ragdale Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
Selected Publications and Poems Online
Alimentum: “Feeding Cioci,” “Eating Grace”
Atlanta Review: “Carlos”
Birmingham Arts Review: “Passage,” “The Pace of Things”
Birmingham Poetry Review: “My ESOL Class Discusses Food”
BOXCAR Poetry Review: “Poem of Lost Lines”
Brain, Child: the Magazine for Thinking Mothers: “In the Absence of My Son”
cell poems: "apology & mulberries"
Connotation Press: "Transposition," "What Will Stay?," "Lessons in Leaving the Ground"
The Del Sol Review: “Roya” (forthcoming)
The Florida Review: “House of Sleep,” “Negative Miracle,” “Through Elements”
Lightning Key Review: “A Mother’s Night at a Lodge & Springs”
The Literary Nest: “Roots”
Natural Bridge: “Alight”
onbeing.org: “Diagnose, Cause of Light”
Poet Lore: “Lost Cities,” “A Short Treatise on Loss”
The Pinch: “What You Don’t Want to Know”
Potomac Review: “Rebuilding a House”
Raleigh Review: “Mysterious Waters”
Rattle: “Between Missing and Found,” “Unplotted,” “The Uncertainest Word”
Saw Palm Review: “Gathering Storm,” “The Order of Days"
The Southern Review: “Last Breath,” “A Short History of Leavening,” “Ellis Island,”“Landing,” “Letter from this Ordinary Time”
The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review: “Balcony”
Subtropics: “Courting, Paynes Prairie,” “What Are The Words For This?”
SWWIM: "On the Colors of Houses"
The Sun Magazine: “Without Tending”
The Tampa Review: “Gaps in the Sky”
Verse Wisconsin: “Woman in a Dream”
Western Humanities Review: “Description,” “The Mind’s Mansion”
What Rough Beast: "Their Piece" (in response to the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford)
Poreba maximizes the effects of visceral language in this fine-tuned debut.
— Publishers Weekly
If you listen carefully you can almost believe the movement within her poems is like breathing: inward-containment, outward-space.
I want such poetry close at hand.
— Peter Everwine, Judge, Philip Levine Prize for Poetry
There is an extraordinary lightness to this collection of poems — it is as if they are floating just above the surface of the earth. Christine Poreba’s debut collection is radiantly lovely.
— Sidney Wade
These poems are love letters to our interior lives, walks through the wilderness of our world, the register of a life lived deeply... This is a hard book to put down.
—Marty Saunders in the Raleigh Review