Anna Rabinowitz’s latest volume of poetry is THE WANTON SUBLIME: A Florilegium of Whethers and Wonders. Other volumes include DARKLING: A Poem, a book-length acrostic poem that was a finalist for ForeWord Magazine’s Best Poetry Book of 2001 Award and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2002, and AT THE SITE OF INSIDE OUT, winner of the Juniper Prize.

DARKLING: A Poem has garnered ongoing praise since its publication in 2001. Hailed by Booklist as “...a piercing and powerful incantation” of the voices of her family’s Holocaust victims, DARKLING’s poetry of accumulation — is a profound processing of loss and aftermath — affirming memory, ceremony, and life itself. Timothy Donnelly, in his introduction of Rabinowitz at the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, asserted that the poet presents the reader with “a new form of remembering,” what she herself describes as an “inheritance of truncated histories” and “sketchy memories” discovered in an old shoebox.

American Opera Projects has transformed DARKLING into an experimental opera-theatre work that blurs distinctions between poetry, theater, and music, challenging conventional modes of narrative as well as familiar approaches to opera and theater.  This ground-breaking production had its world premiere to great critical acclaim on February 26, 2006 at the 13th St. Theatre, NYC. Excerpts from this “new form of theater art” were performed in November, 2005, along with panel discussions, as part of the Works and Process at the Guggenheim series.  Read More.  A concert version was performed at the German Consulate, NYC, in June, 2006, and a tour is planned for concert and full productions of “Darkling” through Germany and Poland in 2007.

Previously, DARKLING had another life as a sound/theater piece, which was featured at Barnard College in April 2002 at the national conference, "Women Poets in Performance, the Poetry of Plays: From Gertrude Stein to the Present."

A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow for 2001, Anna Rabinowitz has published widely in such journals as Atlantic Monthly, Boston Review, The Paris Review, Colorado Review, Southwest Review, Denver Quarterly, Sulfur, LIT, VOLT, Verse, and Doubletake. Her work has also appeared in the anthologies, The Best American Poetry 1989, edited by Donald Hall, Life on the Line: Selections on Words and Healing, The KGB Bar Reader, The Poets’ Grimm, Poetry Daily, and Poetry After 9/11.

Anna Rabinowitz edits and publishes the nationally distributed literary journal, American Letters & Commentary and is a vice-president of the Poetry Society of America.