Press & Praise

“Emily Rosko is a rising star in contemporary poetry.  She has a gift for bridging the vast expanse that is often imagined between literature and philosophy.  Like the great modernist poets who came before her, particularly Mina Loy, H.D., Gertrude Stein, and Marianne Moore, Rosko proves that form and technique can be used to revise, and reclaim agency over, what is in essence a predominantly masculine intellectual tradition.”

– Kristina Marie Darling, Editor-in-Chief Tupelo Quarterly

“Emily Rosko’s poems are exquisitely made, yet they retain enough fragmentary edge to earn the adjective ‘raw.’ There is a persuasive emotional and cerebral undertow to Rosko’s meditations; she is a poet of conscience who confronts the largest ethical dilemmas without succumbing to simplicities. She is a breathtaking, in fact, thrilling poet who makes me want to read and read and write and write. Surely that is the most telling praise, the praise that shows.”

– Alice Fulton, Author of Barely Composed and Felt

“Emily Rosko finds her Muse in the burnished details that are evidence of a deep-down wonder in the natural world. Through her tapestry-like weave of imagistic patterns, her technical mastery of the lyric form, her uncanny ability to articulate the mind’s middle registers, Rosko leaves a reader with a feeling of heightened alertness to the minutest particulars of our surroundings.”

– Sherod Santos, Author of Square Inch Hours and The Pilot Star Elegies

Essays & Interviews

• CNN Digital
  “Time moves strangely when a hurricane eyes you”

• The Rumpus
  “Post-Election Dispatch: Charleston, SC”

• The Working Poet II (Ed. Scott Minar)
  “The Activated Voice”

• Poets on Teaching (Ed. Joshua Marie Wilkinson)
  ”The Complaint”

• The California Journal of Women Writers
  Interview

• Connect Savannah
  Interview

• Queen Mob’s Teahouse
  “Dear Poetry Editor”

Readings

• Furman University (Greenville, SC)

• Elizabeth Boatwright Coker Visiting Writer, Converse College (Spartanburg, SC)

• Southern Festival of Books, 2018 (Nashville, TN)

• Poetrio Reading Series, Malaprop’s Bookstore (Asheville, NC)

• Hub City’s Writing in Place Conference, Wofford College (Spartanburg, SC)

• Zeitgeist Poetry Series, Clemson University, (Clemson, SC)

• Armstrong State University, (Savannah, GA)

• Philip Freund Prize Alumni Reading, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)

• Piccolo Spoleto Sundown Poetry Series (Charleston, SC)

• Maxwell Visiting Writer, Columbia College (Columbia, SC)