As a line editor for poets, I use a gentle and thoughtful hand to suggest edits to punctuation, phrasing, and word choice that support and enhance your poetics. I attend to the subtle details that maintain your style across poems.
If desired, I can also help with reordering poems and suggesting adjustments to the larger structure of the collection that reflect the themes and concerns of the work.
I provided line editing (and some developmental editing) for these poetry collections and projects.
Judy Halebsky: Spring and a Thousand Years (The University of Arkansas Press), Tree Line (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
Theresa Whitehill: Heavy Lifting (Moving Parts Press)
Given eccentric orthography and poetics, you show a sensitivity to non-prose language while still being able to point out potential faults or lapses in the poetics, punctuation, and grammar, without trying to tame the language into something it is not. —Theresa Whitehill
Moe Bowstern: Nine Poems (XTRA TUF)
As an untrained poet riddled with imposter syndrome, I was so grateful to find in Alex Weinstein an editor with a steady hand on the tiller and a heart open for beauty. She let me know when things worked, and when they didn’t she gave clear suggestions and feedback on how I might find a better way. Publishing poetry is a vulnerable act, and Alex gave me the confidence to believe in my poems. I look forward to working with her for the foreseeable future. —Moe Bowstern
Judy Halebsky, Theresa Whitehill, and Armand Brint:
Collaboration for the Grace Hudson Museum exhibit Artful Liaisons: Connecting Painters Grace Carpenter, Edward Espey, and Grafton Tyler Brown
If you’d like to explore the possibility of working together, please: