poet . critic . consultant
2020 National Poetry Series Winner
Selected by Forrest Gander
[WHITE] (University of Georgia Press, 2021)
BIO
Trevor Ketner is the author of The Wild Hunt Divinations: A Grimoire (Wesleyan University Press, 2023) and [WHITE] (University of Georgia Press, 2021; Broken Sleep Books (UK) 2022) selected as a winner of the National Poetry Series by Forrest Gander. Their chapbooks include Negative of a Photo of Fire (Seven Kitchens Press, 2019), White Combine: A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg (The Atlas Review, 2019), and Major Arcana: Minneapolis, winner of the Burnside Review Chapbook Contest judged by Diane Seuss. They have been published in The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, Poetry Daily, Brooklyn Rail, New England Review, Ninth Letter, Changes, Diagram, Foglifter, and elsewhere. Their essays and reviews can be found in The Kenyon Review, Boston Review, and Lambda Literary. A 2020 Lambda Literary Fellow, they have been a Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow, Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow for The Poetry Project (selected by Wayne Koestenbaum), and a Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Fellow. They hold an MFA from the University of Minnesota and live in Manhattan with their husband.
White Combine: A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg
Negative of a Photo
of Fire
Recent publications
Poetry
Collections
The Wild Hunt Divinations: A Grimoire (Wesleyan University Press, 2023)
[WHITE] (University of Georgia Press, 2021; Broken Sleep Books (UK), 2022)
Chapbooks
White Combine: A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg (The Atlas Review, 2019)
Negative of a Photo of Fire (Seven Kitchens Press, 2019)
Major Arcana: Minneapolis (Burnside Review Press, 2018)
Online
"11 — Justice ." — Poetry Daily
Two sonnets from The Wild Hunt Divinations — Changes Review
Two sonnets from The Wild Hunt Divinations — The Recluse (from The Poetry Project)
"Sonnet 58" — Pigeon Pages
“[Thine Eyes I love, and they, as pitying me]” — The Puritan
Five sonnets from The Wild Hunt Divinations — Sporklet
"Delilah" — Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day
Five sonnets — Brooklyn Rail
Three centos — DIAGRAM
“Nakedness and Fern Cento” — Guesthouse
Four centos— Jet Fuel Review, Cento Folio
“Empty Poem” — Tinderbox Poetry
“Consumption” — BOAAT
“A Spell Called Home #29 & #40” — Memorious
“Exodus” — Lambda Literary Poetry Spotlight
“How We Go on Coveting the Knife” — The Adroit Journal
“Aglow” — The Offing
Print Only
Two sonnets from The Wild Hunt Divinations — Bennington Review
Three sonnets from The Wild Hunt Divinations — Foglifter
“Memory of Summer Heat” — Washington Square Review
“Meditations, with an Image Borrowed from Félix González-Torres”— New England Review
"[Home is a heart.]" — The Stinging Fly (UK)
“Empire” and “Autobiography Not in Drag” — West Branch
“A Spell Called Home #26” — Ninth Letter
“Gunshot Shards of Tiny Steel Stars” — Best New Poets 2015 / Sycamore Review
“Epistle” — Pleiades
“Cipher” — cream city review
“Barren” — The Journal
Prose
Interviews
"Conversations with Contributors: Trevor Ketner" with Halee Kirkwood — The Adroit Journal (February 2019)
“A Conversation About Poetry and Tarot” with Airea D. Matthews and Hoa Nguyen — Catapult (February 2017)
Reviews
"On A Symmetry by Ari Banias“ — On the Seawall
"Camp Marmalade by Wayne Koestenbaum” — Lambda Literary
“Half-light by Frank Bidart” — Lambda Literary
“‘It is sad is it not’: Mary Ruefle’s My Private Property” — The Bind
“When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen”— Lambda Literary
“Feder by Nathanael” — Lambda Literary
“Schematic: Renee Gladman’s Calamities” — Kenyon Review
“Superior Packets by Susie Timmons” (microreview) — Boston Review
“How to Be Drawn by Terrance Hayes” — The Rumpus
Essays
“Something Small and Heavy” — The Rumpus (June 2015)