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I’m teaching Speaking Up & Talking Back—Troubling the Archive online on June 17.

I offer chapbook manuscript consultations, please use my contact form for more information.

I’m teaching The Confessional Poets on Monday evenings, starting July 16th at Looky Here in Greenfield MA. This will be a 6-week session, reading and talking about the confessional poets from Anne Sexton to Ani Difranco. We’ll talk about why “confessional” is still a dirty word in some circles, taboos in poetry and breaking them, read lots of poems, and do lots of writing!

My chapbook I Will Write a Love Poem is now available from Porkbelly Press

My chapbook Rupture is now available from Gold Line Press.

My most recent writing can be found here on my writing page

The chapbook press I am the editor of is Nine Syllables Press &

our contest runs June 1-August 31

  • Adrie Rose skillfully uses a variety of forms to embody the daily challenges of mothering. She uses a questionnaire for parents of disabled children to explore the real, the ridiculous, the insulting and the heartbreaking questions that are asked, culminating with “Have you tried blaming yourself?” A conversational dialectic uses found language for one of the voices to wonder about a teenager who is cutting and the limits of a mother's devotion. A justified container of a poem holds a wild bat and wild trip to the ER. In each poem, Adrie Rose includes rich detail and description inviting the reader into the complexity of this parenting. We feel a kinship with this speaker who is looking for “one hunger in my house that could be filled.” —Ellen Bass, Contest Judge for the 2023 Radar Coniston Prize