Author
A Pushcart-nominated poet, recent appearances include Gargoyle, Poetry Bay, Poetry, Lana Turner, Poetose, Volta, and others. Most recent book publications are I Want to Be Your Radio (Unlikely Books, 2025), Escritoire (Lavender Ink, 2025), and Permission to Relax (BlazeVOX Books, 2023). Recently performed at Piper Writers Center Arizona State University and the New Orleans Poetry Festival. Won the Gertrude Stein Poetry Award for Letters to Unfinished J. (Green Integer Press, 2003) and the Hay(ha)ku Book Prize for Reporting Live From You Know Where (Meritage Press, 2018). She lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
Aleksey Porvin talks with Sheila E. Murphy about constraint and freedom, the distributed poetic I, and whether experimental poetry can still refuse the language of exchange.
Five poems: Herself, Ode to a Utility Infielder, Parting Such Orderly Sweet, From Nebula #46, and Evening | Toned | Wings.