Star Black is a poet, photographer, and artist. She has authored seven collections of poetry and taught in the MFA program at

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and at The New School. She was published in ''

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'', and has written three books of

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s, a collection of

double sestina A sestina (, from ''sesto'', sixth; Old Occitan: ''cledisat'' ; also known as ''sestine'', ''sextine'', ''sextain'') is a fixed verse form consisting of six stanzas of six lines each, normally followed by a three-line envoi. The words that end ...

s, and a book of collaged

free verse Free verse is an open form of poetry, which in its modern form arose through the French ''vers libre'' form. It does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech. Definit ...

. Her poems have been anthologized in ''The Penguin Book of the Sonnet'', ''110 Stories: New York Writers After September 11'', and ''The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1880 to The Present''. Her collages have been exhibited at Poets House and

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, and published in ''One of a Kind: UniqueArtists Books'' by Pierre Menard Gallery.

Publications

*''The Popular Vote'' (poems) (Saturnalia Press 2019) *''Velleity's Shade'' (poems), with art work by Bill Knott – (Saturnalia Books 2010) *''Ghostwood ''(sonnets) – (Melville House 2003) *''Balefire'' (poetry) – (Painted Leaf Press 1999) *''October for Idas'' (collaged free verse) – (Painted Leaf Press 1997) *''Waterworn'' (sonnets) – (A Gathering of the Tribes 1995) *''Double Time'' (double sestinas) – (Groundwater Press 1995)

Collages

Stigmata Errata Electa
poems by Bill Knott, collages by Star Black - 2007

References

External links

Interview
in '' The Morning News''
Four Poems
in ''

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Poet's Eye Collage Exhibition
at

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Glory
in WashingtonArt
Interview
in ''

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Apexart Reading Series

Poetryvlog Reading on YouTube

Poetry Sunday: Star Black, Grown Up
in

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