Hothouse

Karyna McGlynn is the author of I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl (Sarabande Books 2009), and three chapbooks. Her poems have recently appeared in The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Black Warrior Review, AGNI, Ninth Letter, Witness, and The Academy of American Poet’s Poem-A-Day. McGlynn's honors include the Hopwood Award, the Verlaine Prize, and the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. She received her PhD from the University of Houston, where she was the Managing Editor of Gulf Coast. She is currently the Diane Middlebrook Fellow in Poetry at the University of Wisconsin where she serves as the Senior Poetry Editor for Devil’s Lake.

• Table of ContentsHothouseBedroom I Can’t Stop Being Performative When Someone Says I Love YouBroken Bottle of Vanilla FieldsBig Game Trophy Return FantasyCalifornia King Square RoomsIn the Future No One Gets to CryLibrary Russel Says Everybody is Aubrey Our Books, Our BooksCaretakerSensual VocabularyArs Poetica in a Boat (with You) Self-Portrait as Erotic ThrillerSeventies CouchParlor Last Girl on the FloorCostumes Required You Are My New GodSwing Dancers Named Michael Self-Portrait as Aging StarletThe Devil Chains Me to the Microphone Wet Bar Waiting for Greg O.What Happens in 1918 Won’t Stay in 1918 This is a Screwdriver, She SaysLottery of Bad ApologiesIt is EasierLove in the Age of Bar Paraphernalia Somebody Gets Shot at the RV Park Drunk Workshop The New Sincerity Bath Rented Confessional Bomb Threat Ouvrir Milk Bath First Aid Kit Blue-Eyed BoyfriendsEyebrows Basement Rich Girl Camp Revenge Fantasy Fortune is a Woman in Furs at the Food BankElegiac Stanzas (With Rhinestones)Of all the Dead People I KnowMortification MontageTennessee Wedding on VHSHit ItThe Afterlife of My Lost Blazers Acknowledgments

"Playful, fun, and morbidly dark, McGlynn’s poetry takes readers through a journey of rogue justice and karma-balancing — the kind that only exists in the deepest annals of your subconscious."—Bustle, "The Fifteen Most Anticipated Poetry Collections of 2017"