Suzanne Wise

Suzanne Wise is the author of four collections of poetry and prose, most recently, The Book of Space (Tammy, 2021). An excerpt from The Book of Space was made into a short film by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation. For more about Wise and her work, visit suzannewise.com.

Suzanne recommends: Dick Johnson is Dead, a “docu-fantasia” by Kirsten Johson that responds to her father’s dementia diagnosis and impending death (with jokes and dance numbers). My Favorite Thing is Monsters, a graphic novel by Emil Ferris that brings together horror comics, the holocaust, and noir mystery with virtuoso artwork penned in ballpoint. godhouse, a cosmology-building collection of poems by Ruth Ellen Kocher that’s a necessary, visionary document of race and gender in our time.