Poetry Links

http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/trochelle.html

http://www.threecandles.org/archive/trochelle2.html

http://www.eclectica.org/v6n4/rochelle.html

Tania Rochelle holds an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in several print magazines, including Snake Nation Review, New York Quarterly, Iris, and Rattle, as well as in online journals such as Three Candles, The Drunken Boat, and Stirring.

Her poems have been included in the anthologies Split Verse, edited by Meg Campbell and William Duke; We Used to be Wives, edited by Jane Butkin Roth; and Mercy of Tides, edited by Margot Wizansky,due out in August. She teaches writing at Portfolio Center in Atlanta, Georgia, and lives in the suburbs with her husband, four kids, and a variety of dogs, cats, and domestic rodents.

Comments:

The poems in Karaoke Funeral searingly explore the most familiar issues of human relationships, love, desire, loss, moving on. They cover no new ground, yet this is their strength; they uncover the ground that buries what we don’t want to see in ourselves, in those we love, and in those we once loved. Tania Rochelle, in her deft and powerful voice, writes with forensic specificity about affairs of the heart and of the family, and she also writes with great honesty, humility, and a sense of humanity rare in American poetry today, and we are richer for them.