priscilla becker

Lecturer

Priscilla Becker’s first book of poems, Internal West, won The Paris Review book prize, and was published in 2003.  Her poems have appeared in Fence, Open City, The Paris Review, Small Spi- ral Notebook, Boston Review, Raritan, American Poetry Review, Verse, and The Swallow Anthol- ogy of New American Poets; her music reviews in The Nation and Filter magazine; her book re- views in The New York Sun; and her essays in Cabinet magazine and Open City.  Her essays have also been anthologized by Soft Skull Press, Anchor Books, and Sarabande. She teaches poetry at Pratt Institute, Columbia University, and in her apartment.  Her second book, Stories That Listen, has just been released from Four Way Books.