Donna Spruijt-Metz

My debut poetry collection was ‘General Release from the Beginning of the World’ (2023, Free Verse Editions). My second collection, ‘To Phrase a Prayer for Peace,’ is forthcoming (3/25/25, Wildhouse Press). O'm an emeritus psychology professor, MacDowell fellow, rabbinical school drop-out, and former classical flutist. Her chapbooks include ‘Slippery Surfaces’, ‘And Haunt the World’ (with Flower Conroy). and ‘Dear Ghost’ (winner, Harbor Review Editor’s prize). I lived in the Netherlands for 22 years and translate Dutch poetry. My poems and translations appear or are forthcoming at The Academy of American Poets, and in the Alaska Quarterly Review, Copper Nickel, The American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. My collaborative book with Flower Conroy, ‘And Scuttle My Balloon’, is forthcoming from Pictureshow Press in 2025. My translations from the Dutch of Lucas Hirsch’s ‘Wu Wei Eats an Egg’ is forthcoming from Ben Yehuda press, also in 2025. There is more about me at Yetzirah ​​