Iris Litt is the author of two previous books of poetry: WHAT I WANTED TO SAY from Shivastan Publishing. and WORD LOVE from Cosmic Trend Publications. She has had poems, short stories and essays in many magazines and anthologies, including the SATURDAY EVENING POST, CONFRONTATION, THE WIDOW'S HANDBOOK, BRYANT LITERARY REVIEW, PINYON, THE NEW RENAISSANCE, THE RAMBUNCTIOUS REVIEW, SCHOLASTIC, ATLANTIC MONTHLY (special college edition), TRAVELLERS TALES, PACIFIC COAST JOURNAL, WRITER'S DIGEST, THE WRITER and others. She leads writing workshops in Woodstock, NY and has taught creative writing at SUNY/Ulster, Bard College, New York Public Library, and many other venues in New York City and the Hudson Valley. She lives in Woodstock, N.Y. and New York City's Greenwich Village and winters on Anna Maria Island, Florida, the inspiration for SNOWBIRD.
Iris Litt writes poems filled with the big and busy heart of life. She's a skilled observer, confidently narrating the most ordinary moments into beautifully layered, musical occasions. In Snowbird, she's turned her capable lens on the annual rite of wintering in Florida: poems dip a toe into a sea of love, loss, grief, joy. Fronded with a shimmering sense of place, deftly peppered with the daily conundrums and stuff of daily life, these feel like the culmination of a great intelligence who took herself for a gorgeous, fruitful swim. This is a collection to be picked up and read and read again, like a good friend you can always count on to surprise you in the best ways, which makes perfect sense. Smart, heartfelt, musical, witty, Litt is a pleasure to read. -Jana Martin The simple beauty of persistence flows through Iris Litt's poetry. Nature becomes for her both in the sun of the South and the snow of the North a nourishing phenomenon. Bayous, river streams, the cold mountain facing her home, and even the splintering wood floor and unpicked-up garbage provide a gratitude for life. Her book is a lyric testament to the salvation of little things. -Martin Tucker These poems carry us, easily, eloquently, wisely, to and from the high mountains to the sandy shores. Ms. Litt has written a beautiful book of poems filled with the spirit of place and the ways it affects us. -Phillip X Levine
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