poet | writer |artist
TAK erzinger
poet | writer |artist
WINNER 2021 Whirling Prize from Etchings Press,
University of Indianapolis
"Awe is what moves us forward."
-Joseph Campbell
books
Tourist
Sea Crow Press 2023
Finalist 2024-2023
International Book Awards
Eyelands Book Awards
At the Foot of the Mountain
Floricanto Press 2021
Whirling Prize Winner 2021
Best Nature Poetry Book
Etchings Press
University of Indianapolis
Found: Between the Trees
Grey Borders Books 2019
Stella's Constellation
Audio Drama
Alt.Stories & FAKE Realities Podcasts 2021
Publications
Books
At the Foot of the Mountain (Floricanto Press 2021)
Out Now
Found: Between the Trees chapbook (Grey Borders 2019)
available
Anthologies
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Her Heart Poetry Publishing
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The Annual 2018
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The Annual 2017
Micro-chapbooks
Under a Blanket of Blue (2019) Water Songs (2018)
published by The Origami Poetry Project
https://www.origamipoems.com/poets/list-of-origami-poets-and-books#r-thru-z
Journals & Magazines
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The Beautiful Space forthcoming
The Learned Pig forthcoming
The Avocet
I-70 Review
Flash Fiction Magazine
Wales Haiku Journal
The Journal of Wild Culture
Mojave He[art]
Grey Borders Magazine
Rising Phoenix Review
Cirrus Review
The Curlew
The Beautiful Space Journal
Magazines
The Woolf Cultural & Literary Journal
Harness Magazine
Hello Switzerland!
http://www.helloswitzerland.ch/-/walking-through-switzerland-on-st-jacob-way
Radio Interviews/Live Readings
Paris Lit Up - Culture-Rapide Cabaret-Populaire, Paris (Paris, France) poetry reading
http://worldradio.ch/article/tak-erzinger-poetry_and-pilgrimage-on-st-jacobs-way/
http://swisspats.com/swisspats-met-a-poet-dont-ya-know-it
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publications
Books
Tourist (Sea Crow Press 2023)
FINALIST-International Book Awards 2024
Eyelands Book Award 2023
At the Foot of the Mountain (Floricanto Press 2021)
WINNER-Whirling Prize 2021, best nature poetry book
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Found: Between the Trees (Grey Borders 2019)
available
Anthologies
Brought to Sight & Swept Away anthology 2021
Vita Brevis Press
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Human/Kind Craft Anthology-Musing the Margins 2020
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TAK Erzinger illuminates the stakes of diverse representation while centering her essay on the inclusion of familiar, relatable characterization and details from Latinx culture
​Poetica 2 Poetry Anthology 2020
The Inner Circle Writer's Group
Her Heart Poetry Publishing
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The Annual 2018
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The Annual 2017
Micro-chapbooks
Under a Blanket of Blue (2019) Water Songs (2018)
published by The Origami Poetry Project
https://www.origamipoems.com/poets/list-of-origami-poets-and-books#r-thru-z
Journals & Magazines
Chiricú Journal, University of Indiana
Confetti
Kitchen Table Quarterly
Mockingowlroost
Gertrude’s Writing Room
The BeZine
Love Love Magzine Paris
Agape Review
Otherwise Engaged Literary & Arts Journal
The Literary Hatchet
Welter, Baltimore University
The Rational Creature, New York University
Anthropocene Poetry Journal
Toho Journal (forthcoming)
NEBO, Arkansas Tech University
Bien Acompañada, Cornell University
45 Magazine Women's Literary Journal
Celestal Review
The Chacalaca Review
The Sock Drawer
Quince Magazine
The Galway Review
Cajun Mutt Press
A New Ulster
Spire of Light, Andrew College
Whimperbang
River South, Wilkes University
The Muse, McMaster University
The Feminine Collective
Anti-Heroine Chic
The Opiate
The Beautiful Space
The Learned Pig
The Avocet
I-70 Review
Flash Fiction Magazine
Wales Haiku Journal
The Journal of Wild Culture
Mojave He[art]
Grey Borders Magazine
Rising Phoenix Review
Cirrus Review
The Curlew
The Beautiful Space Journal
Podcast: Audio Drama & Series
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Latinx Lit Mag 2023
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Latinx Lit Mag 2022
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Poetry Sunday Anthology 2021 Alt.Stories & Fake Realities Podcast
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Audio Drama: Stella's Constellation 2021 Alt.Stories & Fake Realities
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Poetry Series: Between the Trees 2020 Alt.Stories & Fake Realities
Magazines
The Woolf Cultural & Literary Journal
Harness Magazine
Hello Switzerland!
http://www.helloswitzerland.ch/-/walking-through-switzerland-on-st-jacob-way
Radio Interviews/Live Readings
Interview Katt Cullen WRS Radio, Geneva
Cover to Cover with . . . TAK Erzinger - The Bookends Review
Paris Lit Up - Culture-Rapide Cabaret-Populaire, Paris (Paris, France) poetry reading
http://worldradio.ch/article/tak-erzinger-poetry_and-pilgrimage-on-st-jacobs-way/
http://swisspats.com/swisspats-met-a-poet-dont-ya-know-it
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Residencies
Brisons Veor National Trust, Artist-in-residence, September 2024 W. Cornwall
Art Center Padula,Artist-in-residence August-September 2023 Italy
bio
TAK Erzinger is an award-winning poet. Her collection At the Foot of the Mountain (Floricanto Press California, 2021) won the University of Indianapolis Etching Press, Whirling Prize 2021 for best nature poetry book. It was also a finalist at The International Book Awards 2022, Willow Run Book Awards and Eyelands Book Awards. Erzinger’s forthcoming poetry collection Tourist (Sea Crow Press, Massachusetts) is due out in April 2023.
Erzinger is an American/Swiss poet and artist with a Colombian background. She lives on the foothills of the alps in Switzerland with her husband and two cats.
reviews
for the collection, Tourist
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TAK Erzinger's collection Tourist acts as a window into a journey through the poet’s experiences as well as the locations in the world she has visited in her life. Her poems such as Chichén Itzá– 1982 and In Between Days bring the reader along with her on this journey. It is hard to choose a favourite poem from this collection: as a whole, they offer a panacea to those who have suffered through
the past few years of Covid responses.
-Amos Grieg, Editor-in-Chief, A New Ulster
The collection is entitled Tourist, but Erzinger’s uncompromising layering of her inner landscape with the natural world takes us on a journey past the other to a home she believes exists: a dimension where shared experience, strength and hope connect readers to her world, but also to each other. The language of her poetry forges a place where no-one is a stranger because we are together
uncovering a place, we can all belong.
-Madeleine F. White, author of Mother of Floods
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TAK Erzinger’s imagery and metaphor engages us in a world where a woman seeks to understand abandonment, involuntary childlessness, and unconditional love. Readers will enjoy all the stops on this journey that redefine what family could mean. At its heart, Tourist reminds us that what we pass on to future generations surpasses blood ties—and when we love freely and deeply, we create family.
-Liz Whiteacre, author of Hit the Ground and founder of Etchings Press at the University of Indianapolis
Tourist has a beautiful yearning for connection over trauma, the permanent sideshow of the displaced, and, despite it all, transformation and love.
- Scott Duncan-Fernandez, Senior editor, Somos en escrito Literary Magazine
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for the collection, At the Foot of the Mountain
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At the Foot of the Mountain sees TAK Erzinger
further evolving as a master of style and sentiment.
-Jordan Blum, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, The Bookends Review
Erzinger has a magical-realist vision that is both surprising and familiar to those who enjoy that genre and this is evident in both her poetry and prose.
-Christopher Gregory Producer and Director
Alt.Stories and Fake Realties Podcasts
The poems are a haunting exploration of the human soul.
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-Sheila Bugler, author
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Excellent poetry!
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-Lisa O'Hare, poet
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It is Erzinger's remarkable ability to
make real the unspoken that sets this collection apart.
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-Kati Felix, The Latino Book Review
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awards &
acknowlegements
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Finalist - "At the Foot of the Mountain"- 2022 International Book Awards, best nature poetry book
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WINNER - "At the Foot of the Mountain" Whirling Prize 2021, best nature poetry book, Etchings Press University of Indianapolis
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Finalist - Willow River Run Book Awards, 2020 Best Unpublished poetrymanuscript
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Finalist - Eyeland Book Awards, 2019, Best unpublished poetry manuscript
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Runner-up - Zathom Spring Micropoem Contest, 2018
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