Suzanne Rhodenbaugh

Selected Works

1. Poetry
Southern roots, sundry hurts, hells and losses, to home again.
Poems that move from The South to a wider world and witness.
2. Essay
St. Louis, its warts and grace-notes.

Works

The Whole Shebang
(WordTech Communications, 2010)

Narrative and lyric poems first published in Barrow Street, The Hudson Review, River Styx and 21 other journals, chapbooks and anthologies.

"...granite clarity, easy-rolling wit, and a searing honesty."

- Pattiann Rogers

Lick of Sense
(Helicon Nine Editions, 2001)


  • Winner of the 2000 Marianne Moore Poetry Prize.

  • A Pick on BookSense.com.

  • Named one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year by the Kansas City Star.


“...as if Elizabeth Bishop suddenly turned up in a Southern Gothic.”


- Molly Peacock



"Ya Gotta Love It"
From Under the Arch: St. Louis Stories, edited by Paul Thiel (Antares Press, 2004). Essays and stories about, or set in, St. Louis, including work by A.E. Hotchner, William Gass, David Carkeet and others.