Parker received her Bachelors in Anthropology and Creative Writing from Columbia University and her MFA in Poetry from NYU. Morgan Parker is the author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé (Tin House Books 2017) and Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (Switchback Books 2015), which was selected by Eileen Myles for the 2013 Gatewood Prize and a finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award. She writes history and pleasure and kitsch and abstraction, then vanishes like a god in about 13 inches and I mean that is really cool." -Eileen Mylesįanzine review of Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at NightĬolumbia Poetry Review review of Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night 'I'm not like the king of black people,' to point you to one. Where sentences come from (in me) breaks down when I read these poems. Morgan Parker is both intellectual and concerned. I start taking notes: She is making a map of what human can be. She pulls us up short, and when she says 'the sky the sky' I feel that expanse. They make me high and think like this: Her mind and her thoughts can go anywhere in a poem. "I can and have read Morgan Parker's poems over and over. Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night is hilarious and hard-hitting, and it ripples with energy, insight, and searing music." -Tracy K. These poems are delightful in their playful ability to rake through our contemporary moment in search of all manner of riches, just as they are devastating in their ability to remind us of what we look like when nobody's watching, and of what the many things we don't-or can't-say add up to. Her work roves the surfaces of our American lives-gathering up material from reality TV, from the many products we consume and are shaped by, from the sound of America in our mouths, and the racket of it in our ears. " 'Honesty,' says one of Morgan Parker's speakers, 'is uncomfortable and funny.' And how apt, how acrobatic and unflinching Parker is in bearing this thesis out. You will want to say them to yourselves." -Matthew Rohrer They have a New York School sensibility, but it's a new New York-a more polarized, unequal, and privileged New York. They hit you with the authority and moral clarity of Langston Hughes, and have the omnivorous eye of Frank O'Hara. They treat our private, public, and online lives with all the love and scorn they deserve.
They tell everything exactly like it is, and they don't let us off the hook-about how we run this country, about race, about how we spend our time. Winner of the 2013 Gatewood Prize, selected by Eileen Myles
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