Lucky Charms

New Orleans native Sunnylyn Thibodeaux is the author of five full-length collections of poetry, including The World Exactly  (Cuneiform Books, 2020), as well as over a dozen small books, including Witch Like Me from the Operating System. A graduate of the legendary New College poetry program, where she studied with the likes of Joanne Kyger and David Meltzer, she was also co-publisher of Auguste Press and Lew Gallery Editions. Thibodeaux is a teacher, neighborhood activist, and tree enthusiast. She is the mother of a Scorpio and wife of a poet and splits her time between San Francisco and New Orleans.

Praise for Sunnylyn Thibodeaux's Lucky Charms:"Sunnylyn Thibodeaux's poems are amulets against ennui. Her lines orient me in the everyday, attuning me to small wonders. Her clairvoyance within the domestic is reminiscent of Joanne Kyger, albeit under accelerating forces working through her dual hometowns of San Francisco and New Orleans. Whether watching the sky in the early morning or recording her daughter's first sentence (spoken in awe of the moon), Thibodeaux beautifully delineates the 'magic that's second nature.'"—Evan Kennedy, author of Metamorphoses"When I read Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, I feel like myself. For many years I've felt twinned in language and intent with her work. I see weirdness and uniqueness as priorities. I see the ways that other people talk, not the way I talk. I see baptisms and a treat after, and total honesty in prosaic and scalable terms. Her elegance, her vulnerability, her magic. I haven't been this excited about a book of poems in a very long time. Lucky indeed, you devils!"—John Coletti, author of Soft Water"A 'selected' that gives us over 20 years of poetry by Bay Area/New Orleans poet Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, whose poetics' evolution encompasses grief, motherhood, activism, and explorations of The City/Cities, revealing a split between home and heart. The accretion of this duality of place becomes a sort of imperfected Polis. As her writing life has progressed, we witness her style evolving into echoes that escape linearity yet still hold on to narrative, that branch into the abstract, while still retaining Thibodeaux's famously strong emotivity."—Carrie Hunter, author of The Flow of the Poem's Display of Itself"Thibodeaux writes first-person declarative bursts that offer the occasional abstract sheen, yet provide a foundation of concrete specifics. There are ways her narratives are composed of individual bricks of seemingly self-contained phrases and stragglers, pulling apart lines there and here, sliding up against a kind of narrative collision and accumulation."—rob mclennan