BOOK & Chapbooks
Falsehood
from After Hours Editions
“Emily Brandt’s Falsehood takes the reader on some enlightening turns in a suburban landscape, where the dilemma of binary constructs frame the journey, with grit in the light of surreal time, but every gesture sings true. At times, bold and risky, the poems defy anything codified or one-dimensional, always requiring the reader’s full engagement. An echo of contact—mind and body—resounds, and the truth in language lives after encounter. Though many-sided, each poem is always now.”
—Yusef Komunyakaa, author of The Emperor of Water Clocks
“We move through so much of life without a witness, I want Emily Brandt to be mine. Falsehood is a collection of everyday interactions and not normal situations that the world likes to call normal. And just when I thought no one was paying attention, here comes Brandt, she’s been absorbing and collecting the unacceptable norms built by the patriarchy all along. The result is Falsehood, a fierce translation and actualization of so many moments we assumed we were alone with. Brandt’s poetry is like a feminist sleeper cell, easing us out of isolation for a laugh before continuing our lifetime sentence of talk therapy and EMDR. Thank the goddess and the witness!”
—Sini Anderson, Director of The Punk Singer
Anthologies
“Refuge”
Dear Yusef: Essays, Letters, and Poems, For and About One Mr. Komunyakaa
Wesleyan University Press, 2024
SELECTED POEMS
“Ordeal, with Body” in Parts: Whole, Volume 4: MYTH
“I Stay Glued to the River,” “Don’t feel like the Lone Ranger” and “Lawncare”, Fou Magazine Issue 6
“Ribs” at Harp & Altar, Issue 12
3 la smorfia poems in Fence, Issue 40
“Low Level Dancing” at Sarka, Issue 1
"Liminal Dose" in Dream Pop Journal, Issue 2
"The Harbor" at Literary Hub
"Secret Garden" in The Recluse 12
“The consequence of a flag” at Poor Claudia: phenome
“One or Several Silences in the Girls’ Room at St. John’s” in The Offing
“ManWorld” at jdbrecords
“Experiments with Voice Encoder” and “I Hope So Too” in Sink Review #13
“Man Revises Nature” on Leveler
MORE POEMS
VIDEO ART
“across bodies,” season 3 residency with Temp.Files, 2024
“sleep/wake,” season 2 residency with Temp.Files, 2022
still from “sleep/wake”
“Everything Outside is Replicated Within,” season 1 residency with Temp Files, 2021
still from "Everything Outside is Replicated Within"
“me/ma,” 2019…. related: stuffed artichoke recipe at futurefeed
“Experiments with Voice Encoder,” featured at "The Reading Series: Emily Brandt and Eric Pitra," The Huffington Post, 2017
PERFORMANCE/READINGS
Open Door Reading for Poetry Foundation, with Chia-Lun Chang, Nilah Foster & E’mon Lauren, 2021
Reading of “The Harbor” for Anamot Press, 2020
“A Man’s World Is Not Just A Saying,” video by haoyan of america, 2020
Full archive of events here
ESSAYS & INTERVIEWS
“Parallel Action: An Interview with Nung-Hsin Hu” at Temp.Files
“The Whole Plant: An Interview with Michelle Levy” at Temp.Files
“a note on process” for sleep/wake at Temp.Files
Contributor to "To Become Louder, Even Still" at Apogee
Collaborator on “What Is Literary Activism?” on Harriet at The Poetry Foundation
"WE WERE THERE: Notes on 'Creating Racially Equitable Schools'" at Weird Sister
"Locked and Loaded: An Interview with Montana Ray" at Weird Sister
“Uncertainty & Our Anxiety Culture” at Weird Sister
"WE WERE THERE: Feminist Urgent Roundtable #2" at Weird Sister
"Twin Freaks: Being Both Victim and Protector" at Weird Sister
Review of Rise in the Fall by Ana Božičević for Sink Review
“Representation in News Media” entry for Sexual Violence and Abuse: An Encyclopedia of Prevention, Impacts, and Recovery
album cover art for Nature Program