BOOKS
BOOKS
The Ground Never Lets Go
Finalist for the Blue Light Book Award from Blue Light Press in 2025, the Word Works’ Washington Prize in 2023, Gerald Cable Book Award from Silverfish Review Press in 2023, Longleaf Press Book Contest in 2022, Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize in 2022, and Colorado Prize for Poetry in 2021 and 2022
"In The Ground Never Lets Go, history is scrutinized through Liz Marlow's sharp poetic lens, and the result is gut-wrenching. These poems implore, beg, insist, demand that readers pay attention to hard truths and not turn away."
—Lesléa Newman (Author of I Wish My Father)
"Liz Marlow's The Ground Never Lets Go is a book of powerful, urgent witness. Unflinchingly confronting a history saturated with brutal antisemitic violence, these poems rage against persecution, mourn Jewish losses, and honor Jewish survival. The Ground Never Lets Go is a resounding creation."
—David Ebenbach (Author of What's Left to Us by Evening)
"I can't think of a more important and needed book for our times."
—Richard Jackson (Author of The Heart as Framed: New & Select Poems)
They Become Stars
Finalist for the Tomaž Šalamun Prize and winner of the Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition in 2019
"Liz Marlow's They Become Stars is a powerhouse of intellect, courage, and poetic dexterity."
—William Page (Author of In This Maybe Best of All Possible Worlds)
"Liz Marlow's collection is a book of real life horrors revolving around the controversial World War II figure, Chaim Rumkowski, each one exquisitely rendered. The voices of the Holocaust—its victims, its perpetrators—rise wraithlike in these poems, singing clear notes against our collective impulse to turn away...With their arresting imagery and relentless precision, Marlow's poems leave us, gasping and floodlit in history's chambers, with nowhere to hide."
—Francesca Bell (Author of What Small Sound)
