susanna schantz
occasionally
writes a poem, blocking blues in
narrow-banded green
Publications
"Quarter Rest with Fermata," Van Magazine
"There is Something Savage," La Piccioletta Barca
"Hemicrania (Dis)Continua," The Calendula Review
"Embouchure," Jerry Jazz Musician (forthcoming)
"Never Thine, Ever Mine," Syncopation Literary Journal (forthcoming)
"VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL UNDER THE SEA," Deceleration (forthcoming)
"Four Church Signs Outside Clemson, South Carolina," The Humanist (forthcoming)
About
Susanna Schantz is a former teacher for New York City Board of Education special programs for pregnant, parenting and unhoused teens, and for young men in the justice system, U.S. Department of Education TRIO programs, and the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, with degrees from Yale and Columbia Universities. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Deceleration, Jerry Jazz Musician, La Piccioletta Barca, Syncopation Literary Journal, The Calendula Review, The Humanist, and VAN Magazine (Berlin). A trained naturalist, she lives in South Carolina and manages her chronic neurological pain.
