Moving Day (2011) and Union! (2009)

Ish Klein is a poet and filmmaker. She is an alumna of Columbia University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop for Poetry. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines and her films have played at festivals around the world. Canarium Books published her first book, Union!, in 2009 and her second book, Moving Day, in 2011. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.



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“I mean it when I say Ish Klein is a genius.”
- Dorothea Lasky

“Ish Klein's poetry recognizes what it is to be human, and sings of that being in a new way.”
- Shane McCrae, Octopus Magazine

“Klein’s experiment is a socialistic one. Her book can’t be pigeonholed into any one aesthetic or school. Nor does the reader get an immediate sense of Klein’s influences—or, at least, not her contemporary influences. However, with a deranged fervor coloring every page and, beyond that, a reckless sense of compassion, Klein resembles an updated Whitman in the best possible ways.”
- Gently Read Literature

“Like the title of her first book Union!, poet Ish Klein’s name deserves to be followed by an exclamation point. Make that three of them.”
- Poetry Flash

Click here to read a review of Moving Day at Poetry.

Click here to read an interview with Ish and hear her read at BOMBSITE.

Click here to read a review of Moving Day at Publishers Weekly.

Click here to read a review of Moving Day at The Brooklyn Rail.

Click here to read a review of Moving Day at Chamber Four.

Click here to read a review of Union! at Boston Review.

Click here to read a review of Union! at Octopus Magazine.

Click here to read a review of Union! at Bookslut.

Click here to read a review of Union! at Read This Awesome Book.

Click here to check out some of Ish’s videos on her YouTube channel.