Speed of Trees

Eamon Grennan is the author of more than ten collections of poetry, including, most recently, Out of Sight: New & Selected Poems (Graywolf, 2010) and There Now (Graywolf, and Gallery Press, 2016), as well as Matter of Fact (Graywolf, 2008), The Quick of It (2005), and Still Life with Waterfall (2002), winner of the Lenore Marshall Award. He taught for many years at Vassar College, and later in the graduate writing programs of Columbia and NYU. For the past ten years he has been writing short “plays for voices” on Irish literary and historical subjects for Curlew Theatre Company in Connemara. He lives in Poughkeepsie and in the West of Ireland. (updated 4/2019)