Éireann Lorsung

Biography

Éireann Lorsung is the author of Music for Landing Planes By (Milkweed, 2007), Her Book (Milkweed, 2013), and The Century (Milkweed, 2020). She was a 2016 NEA Fellow in Prose. Her writing appears in Beloit Poetry Journal, Adroit, Grist, and elsewhere. 

See Work

POETRY / Fall 2020

Century at Lampedusa

By Éireann Lorsung

In rubber rafts on the open field of the Adriatic, open field of the Mediterranean. 
In a diesel-powered ship setting out from Hamburg in 1939. 

POETRY / Fall 2020

Form A

By Éireann Lorsung

I need to try a syntax of each in place
of accounting: each-syntax as language 
within reach of one’s own body, 

POETRY / Fall 2020

Redaction/ monument

By Éireann Lorsung