THIS EYE IS FOR SEEING STARS
Orison Press, 2025. Winner, 2023 Orison Poetry Prize.
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Poreba's lyric voice, style, and point of view kept me returning to these powerful poems.
—Pádraig Ó Tuama, Judge, Orison Poetry Prize
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Christine Poreba’s collection hums with splendid clarity, reminding us that our most ardent philosophers of time’s passing are mothers watching their children fall in and out of love with rocks. Her work draws us into a bittersweet desire to return, to stay, to slow.
— Natalie Graham
These are beautiful, delicate poems, from a writer dedicated to the holiness of the heart’s affections.
—Patrick Phillips
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In this collection, Christine Poreba is unable to contain her gratitude for being invited along by her starry-eyed son.—Foreword Reviews
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ROUGH KNOWLEDGE
Anhinga Press, 2016. Winner, 2014 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry
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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
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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