Carrie Voigt Schonhoff
A Room of One's Own 2717 Atwood Ave., Madison, Wisconsin 53704
Reeseville poet Carrie Voigt Schonhoff will read from her debut collection, The Liminal Space — 55 short poems that reveal the soul of a Midwestern woman via poignant peeks into her own emotional interiors and those of the people and places dear to her. Most pieces focus on life as a single mother boldly moving forward after tragedy, with sparse but often heavy words. Whether writing about a shared experience with a stranger at a Sarah McLachlan concert, encountering four deer on a frozen rural Wisconsin night, or missing a friend lost to AIDS, Schonhoff emerges as an accessible new voice in Wisconsin poetry.
press release: A Room of One's Own welcomes poet Carrie Schonhoff, author of The Liminal Space!
In The Liminal Space, Carrie Voigt Schonhoff captures the spirit of her native Wisconsin—not only through poignant descriptions of landscape, but in how she reveals the emotional interiors of people and places. This work will resonate deeply with readers who have grown up in Wisconsin, as Voigt Schonhoff tenderly—but with vision and courage—strikes at the heart of what it means to live, survive, and prosper as a woman in the Midwest. Her characters are drawn from life, and her subjects, not only the experiences that change our lives suddenly, but also those that shape us over longer periods and come to define memory.
Carrie Voigt Schonhoff draws inspiration for her writing from life in rural Wisconsin, and her beachside home in North Carolina, that she shares with her two children and two Italian Greyhounds. She has previously published work in The Solitary Plover.