Let Me Open You a Swan

Winner of the 2009 Antivenom Poetry Award from Elixir Press.

Let Me Open You a Swan, chosen as Antivenom Prize winner by Michelle Mitchell-Foust, is the second full-length collection for poet Deborah Bogen whose previous works have been selected as prize winners by Edward Hirsch and Betty Adcock.  Poems from this volume have appeared in Crazyhorse, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, Margie, New Letters, Ploughshares, Sentence and other journals and have been featured on both Verse Daily and Poetry Daily. This year Bogen was among the twenty poets whose work was chosen as Best of the Net by Patricia Smith.

Deborah Bogen's poems and reviews appear widely. Her first full-length collection, Landscape with Silos, won the 2005 XJ Kennedy Poetry Prize and was published by Texas Review Press in 2006. Recent poetry can be found in Shenandoah, The Gettysburg Review, Field, Margie, and Poetry International. Her chapbook, Living by the Children's Cemetery, was selected by Edward Hirsch as winner of the 2002 ByLine Press Chapbook Competition. She now lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she runs free fiction and poetry workshops. Bogen's latest collection, LET ME OPEN YOU A SWAN (Elixir Press, 2010), won the Antivenom Prize judged by Michelle Mitchell-Foust.