Hannah Brooks-Motl

Hannah Brooks-Motl was born and raised in Wisconsin. She is the author of the poetry collections The New Years (2014), M (2015), and Earth (2019). Her poetry, essays, and criticism have appeared in the Best American Experimental Writing, the Cambridge Literary Review, the Chicago Review, Modernism/modernity, and in edited collections from Cambridge University Press and Wesleyan University Press. With Stephanie Burt she helped edit Randall Jarrell on W.H. Auden (2005). She earned an MFA from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and PhD from the University of Chicago. She lives in western Massachusetts.

Poems by Hannah Brooks-Motl

Family Dollar
Of a Lack in Our Administrations
Of Not Communicating One's Glory
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Hannah Brooks-Motl

Family Dollar

Of a Lack in Our Administrations

Of Not Communicating One's Glory

Of the Education of Children

Edna St. Vincent Millay: “Renascence”

Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard: “One morn I left him in his bed”

George Eliot: “I Grant You Ample Leave”

George Herbert: “Love (III)”

Gwendolyn Brooks: “kitchenette building”

Learning the Epistolary Poem

The Lives of Lorine Niedecker

On Listening to Poetry

W.S. Graham: “Dear Bryan Wynter”

Celebrating Black History Month

Celebrating Women’s History Month

Modernism

The Victorian Era

The English Renaissance

Poetry and Racial Justice and Equality

Gwendolyn Brooks: A Chicago Legacy

A Change of World

Charles Darwin Condensed

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