Alison Prine’s latest collection of poems, LOSS AND ITS ANTONYM (Headmistress Press, 2024), won the Sappho’s Prize in Poetry and is a finalist for the Vermont Book Award. Her debut poetry collection, STEEL (Cider Press Review, 2016), was also a finalist for the Vermont Book Award. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Five Points, Harvard Review, Prairie Schooner, and others. She lives and works in Burlington, Vermont.
“Alison Prine’s Loss and Its Antonym reveals an original and powerful lyrical intelligence. In “Ghostwriting the Song of a Small City,” she writes, “now and then a good question finds a crack and spills though,” and that’s what these poems accomplish: in deftly rendered lines and images, Prine unfolds and articulates the deepest feelings with exquisite precision, even as she preserves mystery and surprise. This poet has the uncanny ability to haunt her reader. Poems such as “Strayed,” “Coming Out,” and the five poems titled “Letter to Time” seem among the most powerful lyric poems of our time.”
—PETER CAMPION, author of One Summer Evening at the Falls
Poems
“Before the Time of Distance”
– West Trestle Review
when I didn’t hunger to hear the small talk of strangers…
“Strayed”
– Diode Poetry
peonies in bloom
remind a woman
of the best sex of her life…
“Inside”
– Columba Poetry
this hour a hundred snow geese landing in a field…
Alison Prine 