"Compton does as much as anyone yet to represent the way her youngish people live now, the alterable, friable, quizzical, digital, comical voice of a plugged-in, sexed-out, and reluctantly but unmistakably political cohort." —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
MARCH 7, 2020: Whale Prom has been canceled due to Public Health Emergency in San Antonio. • APRIL 4: LitLife Poetry Festival at Rosemont College, Bryn Mawr, PA • APRIL 16–19: New Orleans Poetry Festival Bookfair with Bloof Books • APRIL 25: Reading and Small Press Event at Inkwood Books in Haddonfield, NJ
Shanna Compton is the author of Creature Sounds Fade (Black Lawrence, 2020), Brink (Bloof, 2013), For Girls & Other Poems (Bloof, 2008), Down Spooky (Open Book Award Winner, Winnow, 2005), and several chapbooks. She's currently writing The Hazard Cycle, a book-length speculative poem. Her poetry and essays are widely published, appearing in Best American Poetry, the Nation, American Poetry Review, McSweeney’s, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, and elsewhere.
New poems have recently appeared in the Nation, the American Poetry Review, jubilat, and are forthcoming elsewhere.
Creature Sounds Fade is scheduled to be published by by Black Lawrence Press in 2020, selected from their 2018 Open Reading Period.