Susan Tepper’s
New Poetry Release
”Confess”

In the poems comprising her newest collection, Susan Tepper is elegiac and lyrical (…a lake I carry on my back/one of stillness), often contemplating winter and its darkness with the necessary intervention of birds, foods, and the mysteries of human relationships—your arms hold secrets. And now and then a tough humor shines a light as well (Bury me in a giant keg—I’m lonely.) One feels her physical and inner landscape acutely, and one has to confess that heres’s a poet who really knows, to the bone, how breathing in the stories is done to the benefit of us all.
—Tim Suermondt, author of Josephine Baker Swimming Pool

There is an extreme sense of intimacy in the poems of Susan Tepper. You can literally feel on the scrim of your skin her engagements with her senses—the natural order of things. She is no ham-fisted poet, but brings a subtle, dark beauty, like a trail of deep blue. She is in constant conversation with the world, and only a poet who is deeply in tune to herself, and the signs the universe sends us, can bring this accomplished work to the plate. —Doug Holder/Ibbetson Street Press/Lecturer in Creative Writing, Endicott College

Susan Tepper’s book of poetry, CONFESS, is a handful of pearls in a hand extended as a gift bearing opalescent light, specks of muted colors, sometimes questioning who we are in shaping our destiny, and what escapes from our dark corners, as in her poem “Course”:…the heart meets itself, blankly, hears its name in the crumpled page… in “Egg” a beam creaks, mindful in the quiet of the passage of time. There still exists in “Part & Parcel” Two suitcases, side by side/have yet to be unpacked, and in “Each Sky” Tepper plucks from the ever changing sky her keen perception of what is a visual poem. —Judith Lawrence, Lilly Press. editor/publisher

APRIL IS POETRY MONTH IN LIMERICK, IRELAND
"Course" was posted on the outside of GOLDEN GRILL Restaurant, 8 William Street, Limerick, Ireland