Amy Beeder
Amy Beeder is the author of three books of poems: And So Wax Was Made & Also Honey (Tupelo Press, 2020), Now Make An Altar (CMU Press, 2012), and Burn the Field (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2006). Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, AGNI, Kenyon Review, and The Nation, among other journals. Recipient of an NEA Fellowship, the “Discovery”/The Nation award, and a James Merrill Fellowship, she has worked as a creative writing instructor, freelance writer, political asylum specialist, high school teacher in West Africa, and human rights observer in Haiti and Suriname. (updated 4/2025)
AGNI has published the following work:
FeeJee
Poetry by Amy Beeder
The Burning of Athena’s Temple by Xerxes
Poetry by Amy Beeder
Among Us
Poetry by Amy Beeder
Ovid on the Poor Economy of Overgrazing
Poetry by Amy Beeder
“Prodigious fine land, but subjects to wets and unhealthiness”
Poetry by Amy Beeder
Pandemic Sings the Muse
Poetry by Amy Beeder
Silverfish
Poetry by Amy Beeder
Against the Neighbors, Bury Bottles
Poetry by Amy Beeder
The Charges Are Stalking & Arson
Poetry by Amy Beeder
Train
Poetry by Amy Beeder