Sheila Murphy (poet)
Sheila E. Murphy is an American text and visual poet who has been writing and publishing since 1978. She is the recipient of the Gertrude Stein Award for her book Letters to Unfinished J. Green Integer Press. 2003. Murphy was awarded the Hayku Poetry Book Prize from Meritage Press and xPress in 2017 for her book Reporting Live from You Know Where. 2018. She currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
Murphy co-founded and coordinated the Scottsdale Center for the Arts Poetry Series for twelve years.
Since 1986, the prose poem has been the form of choice for Murphy, who coined the term for a new kind of prose poem, the "American Haibun", which is quite separate from the traditional Japanese form.
Murphy considers Gertrude Stein as a writer who influenced her early on.
Writings
I Want to Be Your Radio. Unlikely Books. 2025.Escritoire. Lavender Ink. 2025.Permission to Relax. BlazeVOX Books. 2023.October Sequence 1-51. mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press. 2023.Sostenuto. Luna Bisonte Prods. 2023Golden Milk. Luna Bisonte Prods. 2020.As If to Tempt the Diatonic Marvel from the Ivory. Broken Sleep books. 2018.Reporting Live from You Know Where. Meritage Press / i.e. press and xPress. 2018.Ghazals 1-59 and Other Poems. Unlikely Books. 2017.Continuations 2. The University of Alberta Press. 2012.American Ghazals. Otoliths Press. 2012.Noun that I've Been Watching. White Sky Books. 2012.American Haibun. White Sky Ebooks. 2012.The Daylight Sections. White Sky Books. 2011.Beyond the Bother of Sunlight. BlazeVOX Books. 2011.Reverse Haibun. White Sky Books. 2011.Circumsanct. White Sky Books. 2011.Toccatas in the Key of D. Blue Lion Books. 2010.Quaternity. Otoliths Press. 2009.how to spell the sound of everything. Xerox Sutra Editions. 2009.Reverse Haibun. Chalk Editions. 2009.Circumsanct. Chalk Editions. 2009.Collected Chapbooks. Blue Lion Books. 2008.Parsings. Arrum Press. 2008.The Case of the Lost Objective Case. Otoliths Press. 2007.Continuations. The University of Alberta Press. 2006.Incessant Seeds. Pavement Saw Press. 2005.Proof of Silhouettes. Stride Press. 2004.Concentricity. Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press. 2004.Green Tea with Ginger. Potes & Poets Press. 2003.Letters to Unfinished J. Green Integer Press. 2003.The Stuttering of Wings. Stride Press, 2002.- Heresiarch. Xtant Anabasis, 2002.
- Luminarias, Familiar Hinges. Wild Honey Press, 2001. The Indelible Occasion. Potes & Poets Press, 2000.
- Numens From Centrality. Paper Brain Press, 1999.
- Leaflets. Instress, 1998. Falling in Love Falling in Love With You Syntax: Selected and New Poems. Potes & Poets Press, 1997.
- A Little Syncopy. Marshall Creek Press, 1996. A Clove of Gender. Stride Press, 1995.
- A Brotherly Unfixed Grace-Noted Stare. Potes & Poets Press, 1995. Pure Mental Breath. Gesture Press, 1994.Tommy and Neil. Sun/Gemini Press, 1993.
- 18/81. Gesture Press, 1991. Teth. Chax Press, 1991.Sad Isn't the Color of the Dream. Stride Press, 1991.With House Silence. Stride Press, 1987.
- Virtuoso Bird Poems. Brushfire, 1982.
- Fingers of Silence. Brushfire, 1981.