Brian Simoneau is the author of the poetry collections

NO SMALL COMFORT (BLACK LAWRENCE PRESS, 2021) & River Bound (C&R Press, 2014).

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His poems have appeared in Barn Owl Review, Boston Review, Boulevard, Cave Wall, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Crab Creek Review, Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Four Way Review, The Georgia Review, Mid-American Review, The Normal School, North American Review, Poet Lore, Red Rock Review, RHINO, Salamander, Southern Humanities Review, Southern Indiana Review, Sugar House Review, Third Coast, Waxwing, and other journals. Originally from Lowell, Massachusetts, he lives near Boston with his family.

“I am no less grateful for / the berries than for the thorns that are // meant, I think, to help” —Carl Phillips, “All It Takes” from The Rest of Love (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004)
Prentiss Moore, The Garden in Winter and Other Poems (University of Texas Press, 1981) “I have tried to / imagine all the space that // is not the star”
Kasey Jueds, “Stratus clouds form” from KEEPER (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013) #thesealeychallenge #sealeychallenge #thesealeychallenge2024
Taneum Bambrick, “Cleaning Outhouses” & “Drinking in the Company Truck” from VANTAGE (American Poetry Review, 2019) #thesealeychallenge #sealeychallenge #thesealeychallenge2024
Dana Levin, “Ars Poetica (the idea)” & “Desire (clear place)” from Wedding Day (Copper Canyon Press, 2005) #thesealeychallenge #sealeychallenge #thesealeychallenge2024
January Gill O’Neil, “Harvest” & “Glitter Road” from Glitter Road (CavanKerry Press, 2024) “I need a moment without malice, // an hour without doubt or debt / or death.” “I’ll take my miracl
Martín Espada, “Death Rides the Elevator in Brooklyn” & “Love Song of the Kraken” from FLOATERS (Norton, 2021) “Show me the armada of your enemies […] I will whip my tentacles / around their ships, hau
Go on, hang the stars from the sky. This world is a pageant of your making. The hour of forgetting is a brown hour. The house of forgetting looks like any other. The trees are dark and full of language. The trees speak, but not to you. —Cla
Carl Phillips, “By Hard Stages” from Rock Harbor (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002): To have wanted more, where has that carried me, if what so much matters now can be proven later to all along have been doomed not to?
If you’re anywhere near Amherst College tomorrow night, please join us at the Book & Plow Farm at 7pm to celebrate poetry & gardening & Tess Taylor’s gorgeous new anthology, Leaning Toward Light.
TODAY! — September 17, 4:30-6pm: In a Green Shade: An Evening of Poems in the Garden at Long Hill 572 Essex Street, Beverly MA 01915 Explore Long Hill's beautiful gardens with poets Tess Taylor, Patty Crane, January Gill O'Neil, Brian Simonea
With the opening of the new school year, this reading sneaked up on me & I’m so excited: this Tuesday, September 12, please join us for what’s sure to be an amazing poetry reading in the courtyard of the Boston Public Library @bplbost
Carl Phillips, “Caravan” from The Tether (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001)
#thesealeychallenge day 3: Tom Sleigh, House of Fact, House of Ruin (Graywolf Press, 2018) #thesealeychallenge2023 #sealeychallenge
#thesealeychallenge day 2: Dana Levin, In the Surgical Theatre (American Poetry Review, 1999) #thesealeychallenge2023 #sealeychallenge
#thesealeychallenge Day 1: Carl Phillips, Pastoral (Graywolf Press, 2000) #thesealeychallenge2023 #sealeychallenge