37 min

Whatever Weird Little Thing with Flower Conroy PWN's Debut Review

    • Books

This week’s guest, Flower Conroy, is an LGBTQ+ writer, NEA and MacDowell Fellow, and former Key West Poet Laureate. Her most recent full-length collection, A Sentimental Hairpin, is available from Tulson Books. Her next collection, Greenest Grass (or You Can't Keep Killing Yourself & Not Expect to Die) just won the 2021 Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.

In this episode, we discuss Flower’s first poems; her love of play in language; her sense of home, family, and place; and her creative collaborations. Flower shares with us how she finds energy, joy, and surprise in her work.
PWN's Debut Review is hosted by Project Write Now, a nonprofit writing studio. Learn more at projectwritenow.org.

This week’s guest, Flower Conroy, is an LGBTQ+ writer, NEA and MacDowell Fellow, and former Key West Poet Laureate. Her most recent full-length collection, A Sentimental Hairpin, is available from Tulson Books. Her next collection, Greenest Grass (or You Can't Keep Killing Yourself & Not Expect to Die) just won the 2021 Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.

In this episode, we discuss Flower’s first poems; her love of play in language; her sense of home, family, and place; and her creative collaborations. Flower shares with us how she finds energy, joy, and surprise in her work.
PWN's Debut Review is hosted by Project Write Now, a nonprofit writing studio. Learn more at projectwritenow.org.

37 min