Houlihan, Joan

In addition to AY: POEMS, Joan Houlihan's previous books are THE US, named a must-read of 2009 by Massachusetts Center for the Book, THE MENDING WORM, winner of the Green Rose Award from New Issues Press, and Hand-Held Executions: Poems & Essays. Her work has been anthologized in The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries (University of Iowa Press) and The Book of Irish-American Poetry: Eighteenth Century to Present (University of Notre Dame Press). She is a contributing critic for the Contemporary Poetry Review and author of Boston Comment, a series of essays on contemporary American poetry