The Business: poems
Think there's nothing poetic about annoying coworkers, endless meetings, and stained coffee mugs? Think again. The Business transforms office politics and paper clips into a funny and critical examination of the mortal rat race. If you've ever been fired, let go, unemployed, underemployed, or overlooked, these poems are for you.
Winner of the 2015 Colorado Prize for Poetry
Reviews (excerpts):
"... the strangest, wildest, and most precise of poetry, written by a poet of extraordinary talent and skill."--Laura Kasischke
"...a look at office life as unflinching as Dilbert." --Charles Harper Webb
"... tragically funny, a wonderful new voice in contemporary poetry." -- Victoria Chang
Winner of the 2015 Colorado Prize for Poetry
Reviews (excerpts):
"... the strangest, wildest, and most precise of poetry, written by a poet of extraordinary talent and skill."--Laura Kasischke
"...a look at office life as unflinching as Dilbert." --Charles Harper Webb
"... tragically funny, a wonderful new voice in contemporary poetry." -- Victoria Chang
Congress of Strange People: poems
Stephanie Lenox's first full-length volume of poetry was published by Airlie Press in fall 2012.
Short List, Eric Hoffer Grand Prize
Finalist, Eric Hoffer Book Award
Finalist, First Horizon Book Award
Finalist, da Vinci Eye Award (design)
Reviews (excerpts):
"A smart, surprising, and audacious book.” --poet Henry Hughes
"... euphoric, generous, gracefully obsessive." --poet Denise Duhamel
"Reading her work is like watching a brilliant trapeze artist." --Guinness World Records title-holder Ashrita Furman
"More than anything, I find Stephanie Lenox's poems fun to read.... Lenox's ability to constantly surprise, surprise again, and then surprise that you were surprised at all creates engaging poems that continuously evolve as you read." -- from a review by Aaron Bauer, PoemoftheWeek.org contributing editor
"Lenox records a kaleidoscopic celebration of individuals with whom she forges a distinct connection despite their being outcasts, oddballs. Nothing is too peculiar, too weird, too eccentric for the poet to shun. Every accomplishment merits a carnival, every record holder deserves a festival, a parade." -- from a review by Paul David Adkins, first published by Grazing Grain Press
Short List, Eric Hoffer Grand Prize
Finalist, Eric Hoffer Book Award
Finalist, First Horizon Book Award
Finalist, da Vinci Eye Award (design)
Reviews (excerpts):
"A smart, surprising, and audacious book.” --poet Henry Hughes
"... euphoric, generous, gracefully obsessive." --poet Denise Duhamel
"Reading her work is like watching a brilliant trapeze artist." --Guinness World Records title-holder Ashrita Furman
"More than anything, I find Stephanie Lenox's poems fun to read.... Lenox's ability to constantly surprise, surprise again, and then surprise that you were surprised at all creates engaging poems that continuously evolve as you read." -- from a review by Aaron Bauer, PoemoftheWeek.org contributing editor
"Lenox records a kaleidoscopic celebration of individuals with whom she forges a distinct connection despite their being outcasts, oddballs. Nothing is too peculiar, too weird, too eccentric for the poet to shun. Every accomplishment merits a carnival, every record holder deserves a festival, a parade." -- from a review by Paul David Adkins, first published by Grazing Grain Press
The Heart That Lies Outside the Body: chapbook
The Heart That Lies Outside the Body is a hand-sewn, limited-edition letterpress volume. Written mostly in the voices of record holders from the Guinness Book of World Records, the chapbook is an ode to human superlatives, ludicrous acts, and our common strangeness.
Winner of the 2007 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition
Reviews
"Lenox's poems are playful and inventive, yet her subjects preserve their dignity." -- Rigoberto González, Poetry Foundation
"Stephanie Lenox's The Heart That Lies Outside the Body ... does what a chapbook does best, concentrates its attention on an intimately connected, carefully selected set of poems -- poems that belong together even as they suggest the nucleus of a longer future collection."-- Philip Miller, Home Planet News
"Stephanie Lenox's The Heart That Lies Outside the Body is a gift." -- Eileen Tabios
Listed as "Best Books for Summer Reading, 2008" by The Monteserrat Review.
The Heart That Lies Outside the Body: broadside
One-hundred broadsides were designed and letterpress printed by The Center for the Book Arts in 2006 in honor of the poet’s reading as honorable mention in their 2006 Chapbook Competition. The winners of the contest were selected by poet Albert Goldbarth.
The broadside was designed by Sara Parkel. Numbered and signed by the poet.
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Anthologized in Best New Poets
"Making Love to Leopard Man," originally published in Hayden's Ferry Review, was selected as one of 50 poems from emerging writers by editor Eric Pankey.
