Anne Boyer is a poet and essayist. She was the inaugural winner of the 2018 Cy Twombly Award for Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and winner of the 2018 Whiting Award in nonfiction/poetry. Her books include A Handbook of Disappointed Fate as well as several books of poetry, including the 2016 CLMP Firecracker Award–winning Garments Against Women. She was born and raised in Kansas, and was educated in its public schools and libraries. Since 2011, Boyer has been a professor at the Kansas City Art Institute. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Cancer’s Crisis Ordinary
For Anne Boyer, illness is an opportunity to better know and critique the society in which she has fallen ill....
“Total Strike”: On Anne Boyer’s “The Undying”
Natasha Boyd considers “The Undying” by Anne Boyer....
Pain as Revolution: On Anne Boyer’s “The Undying”
Emily LaBarge reviews Anne Boyer's memoir/meditation on the personal and cultural experience of cancer....
Not Unpacking but Seeking
A collection of essays on gender, the body, resistance, and the Occupy Movement....
Sorrow and the Feminine in Three Experimental Texts
Kristina Marie Darling reviews recent collections by Lisa Fay Coutley, Anne Boyer, and Suzanne Scanlon....
