Megan O’Reilly Green grew up in Washington state. She studied at The Evergreen State College before moving south to serve as assistant editor of Rattle magazine. Her poems have appeared in such publications as 32 Poems, Connecticut River Review, Crab Creek Review, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Ninth Letter, Paterson Literary Review, and Apple Valley Review. She is married to poet Timothy Green and lives in Los Angeles.
We are pleased to announce inSPIREd Poetry Series featuring The Beaded Curtain by Megan O’Reilly Green!
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The Beaded Curtain by Megan O’Reilly Green
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Praise for The Beaded Curtain
In her debut collection The Beaded Curtain, Megan O’Reilly Green takes on the big questions. Whether pondering remnants of the Holocaust, the soul's dimensions: Is it bigger than a bread box? Can you freeze it?, or an existential moment watching a boy comb a river for fish, this bold, inquisitive poet pays unflagging attention to the world's everyday beauty and decay. The result is a collection of poetry that delivers the goods, line after standout line.
—Michelle Bitting, author of Good Friday Kiss
What most grips me about Megan O’Reilly Green’s poetry is how unobtrusive Green is as poet. Even in her more personal poems she brings to mind Emerson’s “Transparent Eyeball,” which, to this reader, is a refreshing and delightful thing, particularly in a world where everyone seems to be parading their first person so stridently, aggressively, and unnecessarily. Instead of “follow me,” Green’s poetry is more “come and see,” and speaks to us as though through a beaded curtain, leaving many of life’s uncertainties uncertain, but always complicated and confronted in the proper places and ways. If you find yourself, as I do, wondering occasionally about the last time you were spoken to crucially, this collection will provide an excellent answer, and the answer will be more resounding after each reading.
—Erik Campbell, author of Arguments for Stillness
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