Anne Boyer

Born: 26 July 1973

Poet and essayist Anne Boyer was born and raised in Kansas. She earned a BA from Kansas State University and an MFA from Wichita State University. Her works include The Romance of Happy Workers (2006), My Common Heart (2011), Garments Against Women (2015, 2016), which Maureen McLane described as “a sad, beautiful, passionate book that registers the political economy of literature and of life itself,” and Handbook of Disappointed Fate (2018). (Source)

Poems by Anne Boyer

What Resembles The Grave But Isn’t by Anne Boyer

June 19, 2026

“sometimes the willful-falling into a hole which is not the grave because it is easier than not falling into a hole really” — Anne Boyer