Elise Paschen has a knack for getting poetry into the hands of people who might not know they need it. Nearly 10 years ago, while still the executive director of the Poetry Society of America ...

Elise Paschen’s poem “Wi’-gi-e,” came to her so fast ... The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.” She sent him the poem, which is published in the book. Read Paschen’s “Wi ...

Hear Elise Paschen read Emily Dickinson's "Hope Is the Thing with Feathers." Read the full text -- and hear poet Stephen Dunn read his poem "The Sacred." In the 14th century, Petrarch wrote about ...

Elise Paschen is the author of six books of poems, including “The Nightlife” and “Blood Wolf Moon,” forthcoming in 2025. There is an exchange, she thought. Something passes between this ...

Elise Paschenis the author of Bestiary (Red Hen Press, 2009), Infidelities, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, and Houses: Coasts. Her poems have been published in numerous anthologies ...

Today, poet Elise Paschen is turning her attention to yet another most universal of human experiences: awkward adolescence. Paschen is the editor of Poetry Speaks Who I Am: Poems of Discovery ...