Today's special guest is Christine Rhein, a poet from southeastern Michigan.
Christine Rhein’s first poetry collection, Wild Flight was published in 2008 by Texas Tech University Press and won the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize.
Christine's poems have appeared in more than seventy literary journals, including Rattle Magazine, The Gettysburg Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and The Southern Review. She also has been awarded the Laurence Goldstein Poetry Prize, the Neil Shepard Prize in Poetry, a Barbara Deming Artist Grant, and an Atlantic Center for the Arts writer’s residency.
Christine’s work regular appears on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and The Writer’s Almanac, as well as in many anthologies.
If Christine’s name sounds familiar to Poetry Passages viewers, it's because her poem, “Sunflowers”, was featured back in Episode 136. The poem appeared in a special anthology for Ukraine, Busy Griefs. Raw Towns, which is where we discovered her.
POEMS read in this episode:
1. "Tuning" (from Wild Flight, pages 71-72)
2. "Self-Portraits, Three-Way Mirror" (Wild Flight, page 27)
3. "Upon Being Asked What I Believe In" (Wild Flight, pages 90-91)
Enjoy!