Book Launch: Human Resources by Erin Murphy

Book Launch: Human Resources by Erin Murphy

ONE ART is hosting the launch of Erin Murphy’s new poetry collection— Human Resources.  

~ When & Where ~

We hope you’ll join us on Wednesday, June 18, at 7pm Eastern.

The book launch will be held on Zoom.

~ Event Description ~

Poetry reading by Erin Murphy & special guests to launch Human Resources, documentary poems about labor & employment (Grayson Books, June 2025). Sponsored by ONE ART. Pre-order from your preferred bookseller or here.

~ Special Guests ~

Marc Harshman, Brian Turner, Kwoya Fagin Maples, Le Hinton, Ginny Connors, Mark Danowsky

~ Registration ~

The book launch will be held via Zoom.

Register here.

~ Need more info? ~

Reach out to Mark Danowsky at oneartpoetry@gmail.com

~ What to support ONE ART? ~

Here are ways you can donate to ONE ART.

~ About Erin Murphy ~

Erin Murphy is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, most recently Human Resources, Fluent in Blue, Taxonomies, Assisted Living, and a forthcoming collection of lyric essays. Her areas of interest include poetry, creative nonfiction, demi-sonnets (a 7-line form she invented), docupoetics, prose poetry, class, labor & employment, medical humanities, the writing process, and humor. Her edited anthologies are Creating Nonfiction and Bodies of Truth: Personal Narratives on Illness, Disability, and Medicine, both of which won Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards, and Making Poems. Her work has appeared in Ecotone, The Georgia Review, Women’s Studies Quarterly, The Best of Brevity, Best Microfiction 2024, The Writer’s Almanac, and anthologies from Random House, Bloomsbury, Bedford/St. Martin’s, and other university and independent presses. Her awards include the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, the Rattle Poetry Prize Readers’ Choice Award, the Foley Poetry Award, and The Normal School Poetry Prize. She is Professor of English at Penn State Altoona, where she has received the Athleen J. Stere Teaching Award, the Grace D. Long Faculty Excellence Award, the university-wide Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching, and Penn State’s inaugural BTAA Mellon Academic Leadership Fellowship.

Call for Submissions: Poems About Work

Call for Submissions: Poems About Work

The Book of Jobs: An Anthology of Poems About Work (Online) 

How to Submit: Email up to three poems of (up to 150 lines each) in the body of an email to:

oneartworkpoems [at] gmail [dot] com

Please also include a 3rd-person bio of up to 50 words.

Submission Window: April 13—July 12, 2025

Anticipated anthology publication date: Fall 2025

Fee/payment: No submission fee. Contributors to receive a $10 honorarium per accepted poem (thanks to a donation from an anonymous donor). The anthology will be available online at no cost to readers.

Requirements: Previously unpublished poems are preferred (though it’s fine if you have shared them on personal sites, including social media). We will consider poems that have been published in literary journals if the rights have reverted to the poet; please indicate this in your submission. Simultaneous submissions are permitted; please reply to your own emailed submission to let us know if your work has been accepted elsewhere.

What We’re Looking For: 

• Poems about all types of labor (industrial, agricultural, corporate, healthcare, domestic, creative, hospitality, caregiving, education, sports, and other fields of work).

• A variety of styles: narrative, persona, documentary, formal, experimental, erasure, cento, abecedarian, prose poems, etc.

• Serious poems, funny poems, seriously funny poems

• While we welcome poems about your own work experiences, we hope you’ll also consider submitting poems about the work of others, including family members, historical figures, or people you’ve observed, interviewed, or researched.

Sample work poems we admire:

“What Work Is” by Philip Levine

“Invisible Work” by Kwoya Fagin Maples

“Taking It Home to Jerome” by David Kirby

“Night Waitress” by Linda Hull

“Shirt” by Robert Pinsky

We’re looking forward to reading your work about work!

With all best wishes,

Erin Murphy

Editor, The Book of Jobs: An Anthology of Poems About Work

www.erin-murphy.com

Publisher: ONE ART: a journal of poetry