Erin Adair-Hodges
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Let’s All Die Happy, winner of the 2016 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, is available to order from your local bookseller, and also from Amazon.com and University of Pittsburgh Press.

Erin A-H’s poems, essays, and columns have appeared (or are forthcoming) in the following supportive journals:

2021
AGNI: “Extinction”
American Poetry Review: “My New Boss Has Been Thinking a Lot About Time”

2020
Poems
The Adroit Journal: “Black Thumb,” “The End of September” 
Copper Nickel:“Neighbors” 
Green Mountains Review: “Juvenilia,” “Jesus Christ is Looking for Me in              Vermont,” “Milk Sickness,” “It’s Ten o’Clock Do You Know Where Your Mother Is” 
Gulf Coast: “My Best Friend’s Abuser Takes Her to Court,” “Self-Portrait as Iphigenia in a Teen Movie Asked to Prom as Part of a Prank”
The Missouri Review Poem of the Week: “Midlife/Midwest”
Nelle: “Cleo” 
Ploughshares: “Mostly Married, Alone at Night” 
Poetry Northwest: “On a Hike up Prospect Rock with Three Women Sixteen Years My Junior,” “I Have Cried Off All My Makeup” 
Quarterly West: “Civilization” 
The Rumpus: “Lunacy,” “Self-Portrait as Erinyes,” “Panic Attack at Applebee’s” 

2019
Poems
Ninth Letter: “Variations On”
Poetry Daily: “Unmappable”

2018
Poems
Glass: A Journal of Poetry: 
“Can’t Someone Just Shut Up”
Literary Hub: “When I Say Jesus Was My Boyfriend”
Sewanee Review: “When I Say Jesus Was My Boyfriend” (Spring)
Painted Bride Quarterly: “In Barstow,” “The Last Judgment”
Sewanee Review:“Unmappable,” “After Ever” (summer)

Essays/Reviews
VIDA Review: “The White Fists of Old Letters: On Being Plathian” (essay)
Tupelo Quarterly: “Make Love Out of the Kick and the Punch: A Review of Heather-Derr Smith’s Thrust (review)
Kenyon Review: “On Moral Animals: Sarah Rose Nordgren’s Darwin’s Mother” (review)

2017
Crazyhorse: “My Son, the Night Light, the Dark”
Florida Review: “The Mammogram”
Georgia Review
: “Pisces,” “The Cartographer Gets Lost,” “Self-Portrait as Alone With Thoughts”
Iowa Review—Online: “Once I Was a Thimble but Now I Am a Bell”
Kenyon Review: 
“In the Black Forest,” “I Am Twenty One,” “Portrait of the Mother: 1985”
Nimrod International Journal: “Vow,” “Natural History”
Pleiades: “Self-Portrait as Banshee”
Prairie Schooner: “Twelve” and “Triskelion”
Salt Hill: “Rough Math”
Yes, Poetry: “A Murder of Librarians,” “The New Year,” “Seeing Ex-Boyfriends”

2016

Horsethief: “The Confessions,” “Lookback”
Elbow Room NM: “Pilgrimage”
Boulevard: “The Jennifer Century” and “Photographs of America”
The New Guard: “Tender Roots,” review of Sober Cooking and interview with Lynn McGee

2015

Cimarron Review: “Calling a Girl in the 1980s” 
The Georgia Review: “Of Yalta” (Loraine Williams Prize Winner)
Green Mountains Review: 
“Afterbirth Abecedarian”
The Pinch: “I Would Have Listened to Rush” and “Ode to My Dishwasher”* 
The Squaw Valley Review: “American Idyll”
Superstition Review: “The Joy of Quitting” (guest essay post)
Radar: “Domestic Geography”*
Whiskey Island: “On a Line Overheard in a Crown of Middle School Cheerleaders”

2014

Superstition Review—“The Trap,” “As If,” “Regeneration,”* “Neighborhood Watch”

(*Pushcart Prize nomination)


Before

Weekly Alibi
(dozens of pieces—use search feature there to find)

The Sunday Poem—Duke City Fix

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