Diamonds
First printing: 2,000 copies. Camille Guthrie is the Director of the Undergraduate Writing Initiatives at Bennington College. Her poems have appeared most recently in Best of American Poetry 2019 & 2020. Diamonds is Guthrie’s fourth collection of poems. Her previous book, Articulated Lair: Poems for Louise BourgeoisThe poem “During the Middle Ages” from this collection was published in Best American Poetry 2020Strong regional appeal in New England.
Camille Guthrie is the author of three books of poetry: Articulated Lair: Poems for Louise Bourgeois (Subpress, 2013), In Captivity (Subpress, 2006), and The Master Thief (Subpress, 2000). Her poems have appeared in such journals as At Length, Boston Review, Green Mountains Review, The Iowa Review, The New Republic, Poem-A-Day, and Tin House, as well as in several anthologies including the Best of American Poetry 2019 & 2020 (Scribner) and Art & Artists: Poems (Everyman’s Library). Guthrie has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell and the Yaddo Foundation. She received her MFA from Brown University and her BA in English Literature from Vassar College. The Director of the Undergraduate Writing Initiatives at Bennington College, she lives in rural Vermont with her two children.