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Chloe Honum

Chloe Honum is the author of The Tulip-Flame (2014), which was selected by Tracy K. Smith for the Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize. The Tulip-Flame won Foreword Review's Book of the Year Award, the Eric Hoffer Book Award, and the Texas Institute of Letters Best First Book of Poetry Award, and was named a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award. She has been a fellow of the MacDowell Colony, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Kerouac House. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, and Orion, among other journals, and her awards include a Pushcart Prize and a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship. Chloe was raised in Auckland, New Zealand.

BookmarkedJanuary 20, 2016

Chloe Honum’s Seven Poets on Grief

By Chloe Honum

Grief was what first drove me to poetry. As a teenager, in the throes of loss, I felt language slipping away from me—or me…

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