Journal of Ugly Sites and Other Journals by Stacy Szymaszek

Journal of Ugly Sites and Other Journals by Stacy Szymaszek

Stacy Szymaszek's free-range attention is fixed on what is just underfoot and just in the line of sight: the replete objects of homely desire, homely repulsion. Beloved dying dog, worthy work, relational obligation, self-entertainment, an anxious curative. In the tradition of the New York School of dailiness and relative effervescence, this work brings a timely recasting of contemporary attachments.

it's a sauna in here

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Stacy Szymaszek is author of the collections Emptied of All Ships (2005) and Hyperglossia (2009). Szymaszek is artistic director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church.

Stacy Szymaszek has published five collections of poetry, the most recent of which being A Year From Today (2018). From 2007 through 2018, Szymaszek was the Poetry Project's director. She was the Hugo Visiting Writer at the University of Montana and Brown University's Poet-in-Residence last year. The Foundation for Contemporary Arts has awarded her a grant for 2019. She was awarded a 2014 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and a 2019 Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant in poetry, and she sits on the Wendy's Subway and Committee on Poetry boards of directors. She and her poet partner, Kimberly Alidio, live in Tucson, Arizona, on the ancestral territories of the Tohono O'odham and Pascua Yaqui peoples.