Carolyn Oliver (Of Alcestis, Space and Star Trek, and What Would You Give Up For Love?)

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Read: "Space Age" in Menagerie Magazine

Purchase: The Alcestis Machine (Acre Books, 2024)

Carolyn Oliver is the author of The Alcestis Machine (Acre Books, 2024), Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble (University of Utah Press, 2022; selected for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize), and three chapbooks. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in TriQuarterly, Image, Copper Nickel, Poetry Daily, Moist Poetry Journal, Consequence, and elsewhere. Born in Buffalo and raised in Ohio, she now lives in Massachusetts. 

Recommended Reading:

The Naomi Letters by Rachel Mennies

frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss

Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf

Metropolis (1927) film, Directed Fritz Lang

"Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint" by John Milton

Order and Disorder by Lucy Hutchinson

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin