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Elizabeth Sylvia (Of Gardens, Marie Antoinette, and Loving What is Flawed)
Episode 84
Sunday, 15 February, 2026
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "On Learning that Kim Kardashian Exceeded her Water Allowance by 232,000 Gallons in June" (Passengers Journal)Purchase: Scythe (River River Books, 2026)Elizabeth Sylvia’s first book, None But Witches: Poems on Shakespeare’s Women (2022), won the 2021 3 Mile Harbor Press Book Award. Her chapbook My Little Book of Domestic Anxieties (2025) is available from Ballerini Books, and her second full-length collection, Scythe, is available now from River River Books. She has been a finalist or semi-finalist in competitions sponsored by the Burnside Review, C&R Press, DIAGRAM, Thirty West, Rare Swan, and Wolfson Press, and is a reader for SWWIM Every Day. Elizabeth has received fellowships from the New York Public Library, the West Chester University Poetry Center, and the Longleaf Writers Conference, and is the winner of the 2023 riverSedge Poetry Prize. Elizabeth grew up on Martha’s Vineyard and currently teaches in Southeastern Massachusetts, where she lives with her husband, two daughters, and an extravagantly demanding garden.Recommended Reading:Richard Siken's CrushLady Wing Shot by Sara Moore Wagner If Some God Shakes Your House by Jennifer FranklinCeive by BK FischerRue by Kathryn NuernbergerNo Longer at This Address by Andrew HemmersThe Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing
