Curriculum Vitae
Books
Sweet, Impossible City, New York: Roof Books, 2025 (forthcoming)
Franklinstein, New York: Roof Books, 2016
Covers, Berkeley: O Books, 2007
248 mgs, a panic picnic, Berkeley: O Books, 2003
Chapbooks
Selections from Franklinstein, Madison: Cannot Exist, 2013
What I Was Tweeting While You Were on Facebook, Cincinnati: Perfect Lovers Press, 2013
15: A Poetic Engagement with the Chicago Manual of Style, Northampton: Least Weasel, 2011
31 mgs., Cincinnati: CyPress, 2002
Edited Volumes
Pom2: A Journal of Poetic Polylogue, founding editor, 2001–2008
Poems (2011—present)
“Ping’s Water Overwrites Everything Mankind Tries To Do," “Muriel Walked In The River Of Crisis Toward The Real,” “Katherine Thinks Water Is Just One of the Ways We Are All Connected,” “Duane’s Bridges Go About Their Business,” “Mary Worried About Which Direction the River Would Flow,” Three Fold Press, issue 14, spring 2024
2 excerpts from “Sidewalk Naturalist,” Hot Pink: 40 Over 40, issue 6, January 2024
“Lucille Said Every Water is the Same Water Coming Round“, “Anne Says All Day Long We Are In Love With Water”, “Muriel Walked in the River of Crisis Toward the Real,” Volume, Issue 3, August 2023
“Holly Says Sobriety is Paying Attention,” Academy of American Poets, Poem-a-Day, June 12, 2023
"Shorakkopoch Rock," About Place Journal, May 2018
“Express Roulette,” “An Alphabet Like Breath We Forget,” “A Train Refrain,” The Tiny, April 2018
"Bill of Rights," Solidarity Texts, Jacket2, April 2018
“A Faithful Interpretation,” Supplement, issue 2, April 2018
“Trump Morning, A Grief Sequence,” Jacket2, January 2018
“I Don’t Know What You’re Called, I’ll Call You By Your Sounds,” Academy of American Poets, Poem-a-Day, December 27, 2017
“The Witching Hour,” 7” series, Spooky Girlfriend
“Oculus Study” and “No Bedrock but in Silk,” Touch the Donkey, March 2017
“Trump Morning, A Grief Sequence,” The Brooklyn Rail, December 2016
“Fire,” Queen Mob’s Tea House, June 2016
“The Sense Of Beginning Or Of Ending,” The Offing, Los Angeles Review of Books, June 2015
“We Liked To Keep Them Together,” Philadelphia Review of Books, November 2014
“This Was Then The Way I Was Filled Full Of It After Looking,” Brooklyn Rail, November 2014
“A Point Of Consequence,” Eleven Eleven, 2014
“Having Been Built To Be Functional,” Horseless Review, 2014
“iMPeRFeCT,” Where Eagles Dare, 2014
“Anything Is Autobiography But This Was A Conversation,” Elderly, 2014
“They Will Exist Even When They Won’t,” Epiphany Magazine, 2014
“Because They Are Forbidden But Forbidden Because They Are,” Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2013
“To Fill Up A Place When Someone Has Lost Out Of Them A Piece,” West Wind Review, 2013
“To Contemplate A Voiceless Grief,” West Wind Review, 2013
“I Wish I Had A Complete Record,” EOAGH, February 2013
“It Has A Place For Me As Living,” ONandOnScreen, Autumn 2012
“It Is Hard Living Down The Tempers We Are Born With,” ONandOnScreen, Autumn 2012
Excerpts from “What I Was Tweeting While You Were on Facebook,” OMG!, 2012
Excerpts from “What I Was Tweeting While You Were on Facebook,” The Recluse, 2011
Essays and Reviews (Selected)
“The Limits of Nostalgia,” Plan Philly, Eyes on the Street blog, August 2013
Report on Thom Donovan’s “The Hole,” The Poetry Project Newsletter, April/May 2012
Interview with Anne Tardos, The Poetry Project Newsletter, February/March 2008
Readings (2013—present)
Salon Salvage, Troy, NY, June 2024
Outspoken Reading Series, New York, NY, June 2023
Segue Reading Series, New York, NY, December 2022 (video)
Poetry Society of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, April 2019
Random Name Poetry Series, Philadelphia, PA, October 2017
Knife Fork Book Reading Series, Toronto, Canada, October 2017
Factory Reading Series, Ottowa, Canada, August 2017
Monday Night Poetry and Music, Charleston, SC, May 2017
Temple University Visiting Writers Series, Philadelphia, PA, April 2017
MLA Offsite Reading, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, January 2017
Fall for the Book Festival, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, September 2016
Black Squirrel, Washington, DC, September 2016
Charmed Instruments, Philadelphia, PA, September 2016
Yes! Reading Series, Albany, NY, September 2016
Black Squirrel Reading Series, Washington, DC, August 2016
John Oates House Reading Series, San Francisco, CA, August 2016
Boston Poetry Marathon, Cambridge, MA, July 2016
Berl’s Poetry Shop, Brooklyn, NY, June 2016
Blood Jet Poetry Series, New Orleans, LA, May 2016
Germantown Friends Free Library, Philadelphia, PA, April 2016
Poetry at Dahlak, Philadelphia, PA, April 2016
The Switch, Portland, OR, March 2016
MagmaFest, Seattle, WA, March 2016
iMPeRFeCT Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, March 2016
University of San Diego, San Marcos, San Diego, CA, February 2016
Woolsey Reading Series, Oakland, CA, August 2015
If Not For Kidnap, Portland, OR, November 2014
Philalalia, Philadelphia, PA, September 2014
In Your Ear, DC Arts Center, Washington, DC, September 2014
Wendy’s Subway, Brooklyn, NY, August 2014
Unnameable Books, Brooklyn, NY, August 2014
Microlights, Milwaukee, WI, March 2014
Oscar Presents, Madison, WI, March 2014
Zinc Bar, New York, NY, March 2014
Chapter and Verse Reading Series, Philadelphia, PA, January 2014
The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s, New York, NY, November 2013
Penn Book Center, Philadelphia, PA, October 2013
Unnameable Books, Brooklyn, NY, October 2013
On Deck Reading Series, Philadelphia, PA, July 2013
iMPeRFeCT Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, July 2013
The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s, New York, NY, May 2013
CUNY Chapbook Festival, New York, NY, May 2013
East Bay Poetry Summit, Oakland, CA, May 2013
Painted Bride Quarterly Reading, Philadelphia, PA, March 2013
The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s, New York, NY, January 2013
Residencies, Awards & Honors
Resident Artist, PLAYA, Summer Lake, OR, 2018
Alternate, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, 2018
Franklinstein, Best Non-Fiction Books of 2016, Entropy Magazine
Resident Fellow, Saltonstall Foundation Artists Residency, Ithaca, NY, 2015
Finalist, Slope Editions Book Prize, judged by Douglas Kearney, 2015
Nominee, Pushcart Prize, 2014
Finalist, 2002 National Poetry Series for 248 mgs., a panic picnic
Winner, Hopwood Award for Poetry, University of Michigan, 1993
Interviews
Sue Landers on PennSound Podcast, Episode #59 with Christy Davids, June 2018
Sue Landers on Creative Life Network (with Donna Henderson, Renee Couture, and Rachel Zollinger), February 2018
Sue Landers interviewed for Tinge Magazine, Spring 2014
Poetry Conferences & Talks
Poetry workshop leader, Poetry Society of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, April 2019
Poetry workshop leader, Stenton House, Philadelphia, PA, March 2018
Artist talk, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, November 2017
“Documentary Poetry,” a panel at Gemini Ink Writer’s Conference, San Antonio, TX
Artist talk, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Artist talk, University of California, San Marcos
Co-programmer, Behind Our Masks: A Queer Writers Conference, Lambda Literary Foundation, 1997