Christine Casson

Christine Casson is the author of After the First World, a book of poems. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Agenda (England), Stand (England), The Dalhousie Review, Alabama Literary Review, Conversation Pieces (Everyman's Library, 2007), Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Space at a Time (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), Forgotten Women: A Tribute in Poetry (Grayson Books, 2017) and Open-Eyed, Full-Throated: An Anthology of American/Irish Poets Arlen House, 2019), in addition to Literary Matters. She has also published eco-critical essays on the work of Leslie Marmon Silko and the poetry of Linda Hogan and on the sequential poem, Audubon: A Vision of Robert Penn Warren. Ms. Casson is currently writing a book of non-fiction that explores the relationship between trauma and memory, and is at work on a study of the poetic sequence entitled Sequence and Time Signature: A Study in Poetic Orchestration.  Her second book of poems, Needle’s Eye, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in 2025. She is Scholar- / Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College.