Elizabeth Marie Young

Eileen De Rosas’s @eileenderosasart ethereal installation piece Walk This Way. Anyone who can identify the presence behind the green scrim gets a gold star.

Last night was *so much fun*! K Prevallet @kprevallet and Matthew Battles @mbattles rocked the house. @violethammerslydetectiveagency was the consummate MC. And the audience was terrific. Happy 1 year anniversary to the Square Root Readings series!

What a tremendous pleasure to read at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop last night with Julie Choffel @juliegoose and Trace Peterson @trace_peterson , surrounded by the books of so many literary heroes. Thanks to @jmulroon2012 for his introduction and to @grolierpoetry for doing the good work all these many years.

Elizabeth Marie Young’s “How Did Katharine Hepburn Change the World,” was first published in the Chicago Review in 2024. Read the full poem here: /How-Did-Katharine-Hepburn-Change-The-World/ 🌳 Elizabeth will be reading, along with K Prevallet and Matthew Battles TOMORROW, April 30th at @squarerootrozzie . 8PM. The open mic follows the features. / Original 📸: New York Public Library Digital Collections, Billy Rose Theatre Division, altered by me Did Katharine Hepburn ever have children? Were Humphrey’s teeth knocked out while filming Beat the Devil? Where did Katharine Hepburn play golf? Why did Katharine Hepburn wear trousers? What did Katharine Hepburn do to change the world? Why did she talk like that? #squarerootreadings #katharinehepburn #poetryinboston #elizabethmarieyoung #violethammerslydetectiveagency

I wanted to share an excerpt from one of my favorites in Elizabeth Marie Young’s AN INVENTORY OF ALMOST EVERYTHING: “Your Fascination with Beyoncé, NASCAR, Crime and Death.” This poem was first published in Sugar House Review (/sneak-peek-22). 🌳 Listen to Elizabeth read the full poem on Soundcloud (/sugar-house-review/your-fascination-with-beyonce-nascar-crime-and-death) and see her perform live with @kprevallet and @mbattles IN ONE WEEK at @squarerootrozzie . Our fucked-up circadian rhythms, our late night talk show hosts, Our hypodermic needles, our fluidity, our fear, our Pop-Tarts ... / 📸: Boston, MA, June 2024 #squarerootreadings #poetryreading #poetryinboston #elizabethmarieyoung #violethammerslydetectiveagency

I’m a lifelong maker of lists my — my favorite lists are random lists. And my thoughts are compartmentalized in ways you wouldn’t believe. So Elizabeth Marie Young’s new book, AN INVENTORY OF ALMOST EVERYTHING (Subpress), brings me so much joy. It generates “an absurdist aesthetic of gathering-the-ungatherable” (Julie Carr). 🌳 See Elizabeth perform next Thursday, April 30, at @squarerootrozzie . And bring your own poems to share! 🎤 / #squarerootreadings #poetryreading #poetryinboston #elizabethmarieyoung violethammerslydetectiveagency

At long last a poetry website!!! Elizabethmarieyoung.com Huge thanks to @spandexical01 for their web design genius and to @susannahbothephoto for the glorious author shots. Thanks also to all of you for your love and support.

An Inventory of Almost Everything has arrived!!! Thanks to my editor Dan Bouchard at Subpress for making it all possible and to Marcel Marcel for making it beautiful. Available from Asterism Books (link in Bio).

📣🌳 Featured Reader Reveal! I am happy to announce the readers for the next Square Root reading: Matthew Battles K Prevallet Elizabeth Young 🎤 Join us on April 30th at 8 PM — and bring your poems for the open mic! The reading will support Women’s Lunch Place — your presence makes a difference. Suggested donation: $5. Tree [Studies], 1944 Victoria Chang .uk/poems/tree-studies-1944/ Once they picked a date, I knew something the / eucalyptus tree did not. Someone knows when the / earth will end. I think that person is a lumberjack. To / be alive is to accept perception but to use the / perceived. To know a tree has no bones but to paint / in bones. To know that we aren’t actually writing / poems but our own autopsies. That the earth is a / collage of the sky, the leaves, and its own grave. / Things stay alive by eluding our perception. The / same gaze that believes a tree is there for us to / draw. That its branches have tiny offices. That it can / fly away or be poured. The miracle is that the earth / holds the weight of the living, the dead, and our / imaginations, but it doesn’t sink. Picasso drew in a / branch collar, where a tree branch had been cut. As / if he knew that the whole drawing depended on it. 📸: Seattle, Chihuly Garden and Glass, 2014 #squarerootreadings #poetryreading #poetryinboston #roslindale violethammerslydetectiveagency

Julie Choffel, Trace Peterson and Elizabeth Marie Young are reading at the shop on Wednesday, April 29th, 2026 at 7 pm. John Mulrooney is providing the introductions. Please join us in person or virtually. Sign up via our website.

Delighting in Boston’s most artful tourist trap with the ever-inventive @suzanneackerman

Sneak preview of the cover for my new book of poetry, An Inventory of Almost Everything, coming out with @subpress_poetry in March 2026. Designed by the hugely talented @spandexical01 .