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Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, The New Republic, A Public Space, Boston Review, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of the poetry collections Worth and Revolver, which was a finalist for a 2008 PEN award. [1]
- English
- January 10, 1973 (age 50), Metuchen, New Jersey
- American
Robyn Schiff. Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature; Director of the Program in Creative Writing. rschiff@uchicago.edu. Taft 301. Research Interests: Ekphrastic Poetry; Making and Breaking Form; The Long Poem; Female Poets; Gothic Poetry; Poetry Playground.
- How long did it take you to write Information Desk? It took me about twenty years notto write it, and then another six to sit down and do it.
- What was the most challenging thing about writing the book? Limiting and defining the scope. Information Desktakes place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which holds over a million objects created over a span of about five thousand years.
- Where, when, and how often do you write? When I’m really writing, deep in a poem, I do so seated at my desk—as often as I can for as many hours in a row as possible, at multiple intervals around the clock.
- What are you reading right now? I was reading Henry James’s novel Roderick Hudson but had to return it to the library in a different country before I finished it, so I picked up Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day.
Mar 14, 2016 · “A Woman of Property” (Penguin Poets), Robyn Schiff’s third volume of poetry, is a study of the imagination’s darker powers and their daily, domestic insurrections. American...
- Dan Chiasson
Oct 18, 2023 · Robyn Schiff. by Jesse Nathan. Robyn Schiff’s work has long demonstrated that American poetry can be both ornamental and discursive, both formally inventive and intimate. But the intimacy, in her latest, is woven more explicitly—and even more movingly—into the history and science that have long been the stuff of her métier.
Dyed Carnations. By Robyn Schiff. There’s blue, and then there’s blue. A number, not a hue, this blue. is not the undertone of any one. but there it is, primary. I held the bouquet. in shock and cut the stems at a deadly angle. I opened the toxic sachet of flower food.
Robyn Schiff is the author of three volumes of poetry, including A Woman of Property and Desk: An Epic. She is a co-editor of Canarium Books, and a professor at Emory University, in Atlanta. She is a co-editor of Canarium Books, and a professor at Emory University, in Atlanta.
