Shelley Puhak

Shelley Puhak

Shelley Puhak is the author of Harbinger, a 2021 National Poetry Series selection. Puhak’s second book, Guinevere in Baltimore, was selected by Charles Simic for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, and her first, Stalin in Aruba, was awarded the Towson Prize for Literature. Her prose has appeared in the Atlantic, the Iowa Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review, and her nonfiction debut, The Dark Queens, was released in 2022.

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Harbinger
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Harbinger
  • By: Shelley Puhak
  • Narrator: Shelley Puhak
  • Length: 53 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: October 18, 2022
  • Language: English
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“The speaker in Shelley Puhak’s Harbinger is no closer to knowing herself than I am, than we are, which is why we trust her. Each similarly titled poem holds a triptych mirror up to the artist and, in so doing, up to us all, so we may... Read more

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