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Congratulations to Susan Azar Porterfield!

Her collection Voice/Poems has been selected by Trio House Press from our Open Reading period for publication in 2025.

Poetically Yours Ep. 85 – Finding solace during hard times

Northern Public Radio • Poetically Yours showcases poems by northern Illinois poets. This week’s segment highlights Susan Azar Porterfield. Published March 18, 2022 at 3:11 PM CDT LISTEN • 1:30 Porterfield has three books of poetry—In the Garden of Our Spines, Kibbe…

Interview with 2015 Cider Press Review Editor’s Prize Winner, Susan Azar Porterfield

With Geosi Gyasi Geosi Gyasi: Tell me something about your first book, “In the Garden of Our Spines”? Susan Porterfield: A first book is always the writer’s apprenticeship, no matter how complete or mature it may or may not be. In the Garden of Our Spines is…