Linda Opyr
Poet Laureate Nassau County
2011-2013
Special Announcement
The Kite, a story poem, Linda's ninth collection of poetry, has been published in February of 2025 by Allbook Books.
Copies are available from the publisher
for $15+shipping/handling:
https://www.allbook-books.com/html/the_kite__a_story_poem.html
Copies are also available at Linda's readings and workshops.
Please contact Linda with your inquiries, via this website's contact information.
Recent Publications
Poetry Readings
and
Activities
Poetry Collections
Books
The Kite (2025)
Where The Eye Wants Coast (2020)
The Ragged Cedar (2012)
If We Are What We Remember:
New and Selected Poems (2005)
Earth Time (2000)
A Sudden Truth (1999)
No Moon (1998)
Chapbooks
Once Again (1997)
Small Sightings (1996)
About Linda
Linda Opyr, the Poet Laureate of Nassau County 2011–2013, is the author of nine collections of poetry. Her poems have appeared in The Hudson Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Crannóg, The Stony Thursday Book, Antiphon, The Seventh Quarry, Atlanta Review, Paterson Literary Review, and The New York Times. Numerous other journals, anthologies, and newspapers in Ireland, England, and the United States have published her poems, as well.
She has been featured in the Bailieborough Poetry Festival in County Cavan the Walking with Whitman Series at the Walt Whitman Birthplace and the Poetry Series at Long Island University, C.W. Post campus. She was the Visiting Poet in the 1999–2000 Writers' Series at Roger Williams University, and also for many years has served at the New England Young Writers’ Conference at Bread Loaf, as a featured poet and keynote speaker. In April of 2001 the Suffolk County Legislature presented her with a Proclamation honoring her poetry.
The poet holds a Doctor of Arts degree in English and American literature from St. John’s University.
Available Services
monthly poetry workshop
at the Elmont Memorial
Public Library
poetry readings
poetry workshops for adults
Contact Information
Please contact Linda via email:
lindaopyr@lindaopyr.com
