Satellite Convulsions

Tin House editors have assembled a dazzling anthology of work by established and emerging contemporary poets.

Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House celebrates Tin HouseMagazine's commitment to publishing innovative contemporary poetry by both established and emerging poets. Tin House has established itself as one of the most exciting, eclectic, and popular literary magazines in America. The Village Voice declared that Tin House "may very well represent the future of literary magazines." This collection features work by Rae Armantrout, Frank Bidart, Billy Collins, Bei Dao, Olena Kalytiak Davis, Mark Doty, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Nick Flynn, Matthea Harvey, Terrance Hayes, Seamus Heaney, Lucia Perillo, D.A. Powell, Bin Ramke, Charles Simic, Wislawa Szymborska, C.K. Williams, and others.Brenda Shaughnessy is the author of Interior with Sudden Joy and the forthcoming Human Dark with Sugar (Copper Canyon Press, 2008). She is the recent recipient of the prestigious James Laughlin award. She teaches at Columbia University and at Eugene Lang College of the New School University. She is the poetry editor at Tin House magazine and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

CJ Evans is the associate poetry editor of Tin House and works for the Academy of American Poets. His poetry has most recently appeared, or is forthcoming, in journals such as AGNI Online, American Letters & Commentary, Chelsea, CutBank, LIT, and Nimrod. He was a semifinalist for the 2007 Discovery/The Nation Prize. He received his MFA from Columbia University and lives in New York City.