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Suzanne Rhodes

Suzanne Underwood Rhodes is the Poet Laureate of Arkansas and a prize-winning poet and essayist living in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She has taught poetry at the Muse for several years--in-person before moving out of Virginia in 2018, and remotely since then. Suzanne publishes her poems regularly in journals and anthologies such as Green Mountains Review, Belle Point Press, Image, Christian Century, Slant, Alaska Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, Spiritus, Poems of Devotion, Between Midnight and Dawn, In Place, and many others. Her chapbook The Perfume of Pain was published by Kelsay Books in July 2024. She has published four collections of poetry, including Flying Yellow (Paraclete Press), which was a semi-finalist in the North American 2022 Book Award of the Poetry Society of Virginia. Others are Hungry Foxes (Aldrich Press), Weather of the House (Sow’s Ear Press), and What a Light Thing, This Stone (Sow’s Ear Press). She also has two collections of lyrical prose--Sketches of Home and A Welcome Shore (both Canon Press). She received an Artists 360 fellowship and grant for 2023-24 and was given the Individual Artist Award for the 2025 Governor's Arts Awards sponsored by the Arkansas Arts Council. She was a resident fellow at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and holds an MA from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars in poetry. While she’s taught writing and literature at King University, St. Leo University, Old Dominion University, and other schools, her favorite students are the talented, hard-working, and beloved Muse poets. See her listing in Poets.org. https://poets.org/poet/suzanne-underwood-rhodes