anne whitehouse

Poems in Anne Whitehouse's first collection, published under her maiden name Anne Cherner, received the Mademoiselle poetry prize, the Joan Gray Untermeyer Poetry Award from Radcliffe College, and the Hackney Literary Award from Birmingham-Southern College.

"Anne Cherner [Whitehouse]'s poems combine the metaphysical with a vivid visual sense...The beauty and control of these poems are unusual in a poet still under thirty."
[Source: Radcliffe Quarterly, December, 1982.]

Anne Whitehouse’s chapbook Bear in Mind will be published in 2008 by Southern Hum Press.

Anne Whitehouse reads from her poetry collection Bear in Mind
Everything Goes, WNYE 91.5 FM

Anne Whitehouse reads from her poetry collection Blessings and Curses
Everything Goes, WNYE 91.5 FM

Read poems from The Surveyor's Hand at the Ploughshares website

The Surveyor's Hand is now out of print; a few copies are still available at A Libris.

Listen to Anne Whitehouse reading from Blessings and Curses

Click here for a bibliography of all Anne Whitehouse poems.

Blessings and Curses


The Surveyor's Hand

Anne Whitehouse's second collection-in-manuscript, Blessings and Curses, was a semi-finalist in the Elixir Poetry Award and singled out for commendation by the Barnard Women's Poets Prize and the Brittingham and Pollak Poetry Prize of the University of Wisconsin.

Read poems from Blessings and Curses:

Soul Fountain Vol. 35, Fall 2008
The Past

Amarillo Bay Vol. 10, no.2, May 2008
The Refrain

Earth’s Daughters no.72 Splinters and Fragments, 2008.
Curse XXII

Poems Niederngasse (featured selection, January/February 2008)
Choices Apprehend You

2River, Fall 2007
Curses VIII, XXIV

Adagio Verse Quarterly, Winter 2007
Curses III, V

Southern Hum, Vol 2, issue 1, Fall 2006
Eight poems from Blessings and Curses

Southern Hum, vol 2, issue 4, Summer, 2007
Eight more poems from Blessings and Curses

The Oklahoma Review, Vol.8, issue1, Spring 2007
Blessing XI

The Bergen Street Review, April 5, 2007
The Beyond

Sea Change, Her Age Advances on Her, My Life at Fifty, from Bear in Mind, Snow Monkey, vol 18, 2007

Brave Little Poem of the Day, June 21-23, 2007.
Curse IV

Poems Niederngasse, Issue #74, May/June 2005
Sometimes, an excerpt from Bear In Mind

Amarillo Bay vol. 9, no. 3, August, 2007
Livy's Horses, Change of Life.

Brave Little Poem of the Day, August, 2007
Blessing XXII

Saranac Review, Spring/Summer 2008
Curse XV

Phantasmagoria, vol. 7, no. 1 2007
Blessing XXXVI

Ballard Street Poetry Journal, Summer 2007
Claire in a Swing

Confrontation, Greenvale, NY No. 98/99 Spring/Summer 2007
Blessing XXV