Christy Prahl

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Now Available:

We Are Reckless

1st Runner-Up for Chicago Reader's
Best New Poetry Collection
by a Chicagoan, 2023!

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Cornerstone Press

$21.95, paperback, 106 pages

ISBN# 978-1960329028

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or online retailer.

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"These poems boldly ask how we define a self, a marriage, and a family via eerie and frightening worlds. We Are Reckless is a dazzling debut." -Hadara Bar-Nadav, author of The New Nudity

 

"I love the wild curiosity of this book, its attention to the off-kilter, the liminal, the often unseen and unacknowledged. I love the way nothing is beneath the notice of these searching, pulsing, vibrantly alive poems." -Kasey Jueds, author of Keeper and The Thicket

 

An Illinois Arts Council grant recipient and multiple Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee, my work has appeared in a host of national and international journals.  I have enjoyed residencies at both Ragdale and The Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow and split my time between Chicago and rural Michigan. I am the founder and director of the PenRF reading series. 

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