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Emily Skaja

Emily Skaja

Emily Skaja

Emily Skaja is the author of Brute, winner of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her second book, Black Lake, is forthcoming from Graywolf in 2026. She is the founding editor of the Poetry Prompt Generator, and she teaches in the MFA program at the University of Memphis. (Source)

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Poems by Emily Skaja

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[Remarkable the litter of birds] by Emily Skaja

July 15, 2024
“Everyone if we’re going to talk about love please we have to talk about violence” — Emily Skaja

Poems curated by Emily Skaja

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Moving On in the Dark Like Loaded Boats at Night, Though There is No Course, There is Boundlessness by Lucie Brock-Broido

August 24, 2025
“Why would what died once keep on dying off / Over & over like a seam in an old velvet coat?” — Lucie Brock-Broido