ALL THE TIME MORE THAN ANYTHING
debut poetry collection - Finishing Line Press
Emily Zogbi's debut poetry collection, all the time more than anything, is for purchase at Finishing Line Press, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.
“Emily Zogbi’s all the time more than anything comes to us from a world that feels slightly off kilter, where the living and the dead mingle in kitchens and bedrooms and forests and asylums. She explores this world confidently, comfortably, recording each strangeness encountered there with a clear if not entirely unsuspicious eye, whether it’s a “refrigerator door swinging open / like the flag of a surrendering army” or a dragonfly with “the face of a lion and the hands of a person / I loved whose voice was not a voice // I recognized.” While Zogbi’s poems often proceed like waking dreams, what steers them around the easy trap of surrealism is her deep sense of empathy. This book is a rare and entrancing gift.”
–Mark Bibbins, author of 13th Balloon
About
Emily is the author of all the time more than anything. Her poems have been published in Chronogram, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, RHINO Poetry, Half Mystic, and Ocean State Review, among others. In 2021, Emily was awarded Palette Poetry's Sappho Prize for Women Poets, selected by Maggie Smith. She has an MFA in poetry from The New School.
Emily's experience is eclectic: she is a published poet, professional editor and writer with over 8 years of experience in traditional and digital publishing, journalism and freelance writing. She can edit shortform (news, articles, blogs, essays, etc.) and longform (features, poetry and fiction manuscripts, scripts, non-fiction, etc.) works. She is the former assistant to the Editor of Oxford University Press’ Classics & Ancient History book list. She has published thousands of articles across websites like CBR, Newsweek, Us Weekly, Looper, Food Republic, and more. She knows way too much about pop culture to be a poet.
From the years 2014 to 2017, Emily performed in poetry slam at colleges across the country as part of the New Paltz Slam Poetry team. She is also a teaching artist who has led workshops for people of all ages, from high schoolers to the elderly.
Emily is from Long Island and lives in Queens. She plans to live in New York forever. She wishes she had been a dancer.