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 [WHITE] (University of Georgia Press, 2021) 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, Best New Poets, New England Review, Ninth Letter, West Branch, Pleiades, 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.
Recent publications
Poetry
Collections
[WHITE] (University of Georgia Press, 2021)
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
"Delilah" — Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day
“Door Cento,” “Body Cento,” and “Time Cento” — DIAGRAM
“Nakedness and Fern Cento” — Guesthouse
“Window Cento,” “Silent Cento,” “Sound Cento,” “Copy Cento”— 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
“Amputation” — Thrush Poetry Journal
Print Only
Three Sonnets — 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)