Sue Ellen Thompson

The Golden Hour (Autumn House Press, 2006)

The Leaving: New & Selected Poems (Autumn House Press, 2001)

“I became a poet because I loved the intensity of the experience of reading a poem— its ability to convey profound emotion with just a few words or an image. I began writing it in my twenties, a period of great emotional turmoil. And nothing was more satisfying than being able to put some of that turmoil to rest by encapsulating it in language.”― Sue Ellen Thompson

The Golden Hour

... a book of both courage and the finest sort of craft: elegant, wild, beautifully disciplined, seemingly effortless, stunningly precise... ― B. H. Fairchild

Sue Ellen Thompson is wonderfully alert to what may be poetry's most difficult subject: the happiness of ordinary life. ― Lawrence Raab

The Leaving: New and Selected Poems

"The Leaving is a pleasure and an an achievement."

― Stephen Dunn

"Sue Ellen Thompson's poems are wondrous creations of the real world of love and loss and desire..." ― Michael Ondaatje

The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry 

(edited by Sue Ellen Thompson) (Autumn House Press, 2005)

This Body of Silk (Northeastern University Press, 1986)