“explosive lyric and feminist ontology”
Julie Carr
“rhythmic, elemental, gorgeous”
Khadijah Queen
Books
FORTHCOMING:
A Catalog of Future Mercies (Graywolf Press, 2026)
Chapbooks
Selections from Dayawati, Of Mercy, #304, Belladonna* Chaplet Series, 2023
Livid Season, Free Poetry, 2012
Penumbra, Flying Guillotine Press, October 2011
Anthologies
“I Wanted to Write a Book that Was Like Laying Down: Proximity to Loss and the Erotics of Antiracist Healing,” Rehearsing Racial Equity, ed. Jasmine Mahmoud and Roxy Hornbeck, Amherst College Press, forthcoming fall 2025
“The Prairie Hands Me a Love for Time-Under-Vacancy,” 50 Poets, 50 Years: An Anthology of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Wisdom Body Collective, 2024
“A House of Haunted Women,” back matter essay in the republication of Judy Grahn’s The Highest Apple: Sappho and the Lesbian Poetic Tradition, Sinister Wisdom, 2023
“Rampage, Wounds and Chthonic Desire: A Mythological Complex for the Feminist Poetic Line,” Matters of Feminist Practice: A Journal of Feminist Criticism (Belladonna* Collective), Issue 1, February 2020 [Full Chapter PDF]
“Seduction, after Fruit and Mercy,” Alone Together: Love, Grief and Comfort in the Time of COVID 19, Central Avenue Publishing, 2020 (Winner of the 2021 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction)
30/30 Project Anthology, Tupelo Press, 2014
Emergency Index, The Bros. Lumiere/Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014
Emergency Index, The Bros. Lumiere/Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013
A Poetic Inventory of Rocky Mountain National Park, Wolverine Farm Publishing, 2013
Reviews,
Interviews,
and Citations
Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater, ed. Wenying Xu, Scarecrow Press, 2022.
“Multi-Talented Interdisciplinary Artist, Serena Chopra,” Revry, January 4th, 2022
Serena Chopra in Conversation with Amy Tan and Kathryn Bostic on James Redford’s Amy Tan: Unintentional Memoir, Denver Woman + Film Festival, April 2021
“Feminist Poetries of the Open Wound,” by Julie Carr, The New Feminist Literary Studies, ed. Jennifer Cooke, Cambridge University Press, 2020
“[Woman Wailing]: On the Problem of Representing Trauma as a Brown Woman Within the Institution of Poetry,” by Divya Victor, Poetry Foundation, 2019
“A Conversation Between Poet-Grammarians”, Co-Interview with Aditi Machado (a conversation on Machado’s Some Beheadings and Chopra’s Ic), Jacket2, curated by Divya Victor, Fall 2018
“Denver Westword’s 100 Colorado Creatives, #8: Serena Chopra,” Susan Froyd, August 2018
Harper’s Bazaar India, 9th Anniversary Issue, March 2018
The Lune, No. 10: Anne Waldman, Spring 2016, Solicited review of Waldman’s long poem, Dream Book of Fez
Commissions
Denver Parks and Recreation commission of permanent waterfall sculpture by Joshua Ware engraved with poems by Serena Chopra, Carolina Ebid, John-Michael Rivera and Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Curtis Park, Denver, CO, to be completed in Summer 2020
Includes “The Queen of Swords” by Serena Chopra
Textile and weaving installation by Carolina Cuevas along with a book including photographs of the weavings and the corresponding poems commissioned to create each weaving, Commissioned by Carolina Cuevas, Kansas City Art Institute, to be completed in Summer 2020
Includes “Invasive Species” and “Tiller and Seed” by Serena Chopra
Memory Is a Future Tense, text-image collaboration with artist Lu Cong, 2017-Present
Select Publications
A reading of a selection of poems from Dayawati, Of Mercy, The Great American Folk Show, Episode #114, National Public Radio, July 13, 2024
“Grazing on the Nerves of Forgiveness,” Burrow Press Review, Special Issue: Call to Space, September 12, 2023
“Garden Variety, with Lesbians,” Academy of American Poets, Poem-a-Day, August 16th, 2023
“Dayawati, Full of Mercy,” “Accelerants: An Action Books Poetry Film Series,” Action Books, June 28th, 2023
Sink, Issue 19, Summer 2020
The Volta: Interiors, issue 1, April 2020
Pulpmouth , Issue 3, March 2020
“My Family’s Fears,” @Salon 2020--Freedom Now, @Salon Queer Soundart Showcase curated by Samuel Ace, Illinois State University, Spring 2020
Foflifter, Vol. 4, Issue 2, January 2020
“Notes on Excavating Trauma,” Luna Luna Magazine, September 30, 2019
Visible Binary, Issue 0, Summer 2016
The Birds We Piled Loosely, Issue 7, April 2016
The Volta: Evening Will Come, ed. Mathias Svalina, Issue #59, November 2015
Alice Blue Review, Issue 27, Winter 2015
Timber, Spring 2015
Denver Poetry Map
Everyday Genius, ed. Molly Brodak, October 2013
Bombay Gin, volume 39, issue 1, 2013
New Gnus, issue 3, Summer 2012
Vinyl, volume 6, Summer 2012
Versal, issue 10, May 2012
Hot Metal Bridge, Fall 2011
No Tell Motel, residency during the week of February 14, 2011
VOLT, issue 16, Winter 2011
The Laurel Review, Fall 2010
The Colorado Poet, of the Colorado Poets Center, issue 12, Fall 2010, “Where We Ramble: Nostalgia, Science and Imagination in Ecopoetics”
Pilgrimage, April 2010
Umbrella Factory, March 2010, issue 1
The Denver Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 2, 2010
Fact-Simile, Spring/Summer 2009
Monkey Puzzle, #7 Summer 2009
Spine Road, Issue 2, Spring 2010
Spine Road, Issue 1, Fall 2009
Pax Americana, Issue 3, 2009-2010
Palimpsest, Fall 2009
Alice Blue Review, Issue 8, 2008
Editorial Positions
Foglifter, Guest Editor, Volume 2, Issue 5, Fall 2020
Denver Quarterly, Editorial Assistant, University of Denver, 2013-2015
TitMouse Magazine, Co-Founder/Editor, Denver, 2010-2012
Spine Road Literary Journal, Editor, Denver, 2010-2012
The New Press, Editorial Intern, New York City, 2009-2010
Subito Press, Editor, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2008