Selected Poems

by Susan Rawlins

reveals layers of meaning in the language we use to communicate with and confuse each other; to share our feelings and hide them at the same time; to embark on a task in hope and collapse under systems and instructions gone awry. Murphy sometimes rules this world—If something can go wrong, it will!—and Susan Rawlins catalogs the glorious disarray in her witty, distinctive voice.

Rawlins’ work has appeared in numerous literary magazines, on newsstands and online.

She has reviewed for the San Francisco Chronicle; edited fiction, nonfiction and poetrry for publication; and taught writing in schools, in workshops, and online.