Beth Marzoni

Beth Marzoni is a poet, a teacher, an admirer of bridges, an art lover, & a pie enthusiast. She earned her Ph.D. from Western Michigan University, & has taught at WMU, Kalamazoo College, Viterbo University, & Knox College.

Marzoni plays well with others. Her collaborations with Monica Berlin have been published in Better: Culture & Lit, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Meridian, New Orleans Review, TYPO, & Vela among others. Their book of poems, No Shape Bends the River So Long, won the 2013 New Measure Poetry Prize & was published by Free Verse Editions at Parlor Press in 2015. With Natalie Giarratano, Marzoni co-edited Pilot Light, a journal of 21st century poetics & criticism from 2012-2017.

Marzoni’s poems have received national recognition from Crazyhorse & New Ohio Review. In 2008 she was the recipient of an AWP Intro Journals Award. Recent work has been published in Tupelo Quarterly, Northwest Review, McNeese Review, & Mississippi Review.