Enid Shomer, Anthology EditorPoet and fiction writer Enid Shomer is the author of four books of poetry and three of fiction, most recently the novel The Twelve Rooms of the Nile (Simon & Schuster, 2012). Her work has been collected in more than fifty anthologies and textbooks, including POETRY: A Harper Collins Pocket Anthology, Best American Poetry, and New Stories from the South. Two of her books, Stars at Noon (poetry) and Imaginary Men (short fiction), were the subject of feature interviews on NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered. In 2013, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Writing from the Florida Humanities Council.

All We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women was featured in the July 2019 issue of Cosmopolitan"All We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women is a breathtaking, eros driven, somatic poetic loveletter to women's bodies. So many of the poets who changed my life and writing live inside this book, and isn't that the truth of it, that poets give our desires and ecstasies back to us? I read it with my whole body, dripping with delight." —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan“I absolutely loved these poems and devoured them in one night— like a lover who wants to take her time but can’t. They reminded me of what I first learned stealing Erica Jong off my mom’s shelf when I was a teenager: sex is the force that drives the world, and women writing about it, with all that energy, particularity, sensuality, and humor, is the powerful force that cracks the world open.” ―Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us and The Lost Family"It's the verve of the lines in each of these poems that will electrify a reader. [. . .] Many of the poems play with the language of the erotic the same way lovers play, with a potent and beguiling imagination for both what's observed and experienced. [. . .] The anthology's poems tie love and passion together brilliantly, striking readers as much with their music and magic as their erotic energy." ―Apalachee Review

• ALL WE KNOW OF PLEASURE:Poetic Erotica by WomenEdited and with an Introduction by Enid ShomerI. THE DISCOVERY OF SEXWoman Reading, KATHLEEN FLENNIKENIn Ecstasy, ERIN BELIEUShe Lays, MOLLY PEACOCKPracticing, MARIE HOWECorinna, Deplaning In Pittsburgh, Looks For Tessera, Her Friend from Summer Camp, STEPHANIE BURTAt Seventeen, ELIZABETH ALEXANDERFirst Sex, SHARON OLDSStairway to Heaven, JILL BIALOSKYThe Sisters of Sexual Treasure, SHARON OLDSBar Napkin Sonnet #11, MOIRA EGANHave You Ever Faked an Orgasm?, MOLLY PEACOCKFast Gas, DORIANNE LAUXMy Diamond Stud, ALICE FULTONThe 4-Barrel Carburetor On a ’72 Chevy Camaro, LORNA DEE CERVANTES“What Do Women Want?”, KIM ADDONIZIONavy, BARBARA O’DAIRPreference, BETH GYLYSYour Shower, NIKKI GIOVANNIYour Hands, ANGELINA WELD GRIMKÉFishing Seahorse Reef, ENID SHOMERWhen Man Enters Woman, ANNE SEXTONChina, DORIANNE LAUXThe Source, SHARON OLDSThe French Bed, IDRIS ANDERSONBreasts, MAXINE CHERNOFFWet, MARGE PIERCYDream Lover,AMY EDGINGTONLullaby, MOLLY PEACOCKOrion’s Belt, BRENDA HILLMANAttraction, ENID SHOMERSpace Race, COLETTE LABOUFF ATKINSONThe Shyness, SHARON OLDSDesire, DEIDRE POPESkylight, JAYNE RELAFORD BROWNBlack Slip, TERRY WOLVERTONFirst Poem for You, KIM ADDONIZIOThe Lovers, DORIANNE LAUXDirections, KATHERINE RIEGELThe Discovery of Sex, DEBRA SPENCERDesire, JANE HIRSHFIELDII. THE ORDINARY DAY BEGINSKissing Again, DORIANNE LAUXThe Ordinary Day Begins, JUNE SYLVESTER SARACENOThe Knowing, SHARON OLDSThe Purr, MOLLY PEACOCKIn the Kitchen, STACIE CASSARINOTrying, ADA LIMÓNChrist You Delight Me, SANDRA CISNEROSThe Hummingbird: A Seduction, PATTIANN ROGERSSeamless Beauty, WENDY LEEDownward, ERICA JONGEverything Depends Upon, JANE ANN DEVOL FULLEREros at Temple Stream, DENISE LEVERTOVThe Best Seven Minutes of My Life, LORNA DEE CERVANTESAfternoon, NINA RUBINSTEIN ALONSOCurtains of Goldenrod, DIANE ACKERMANCapitulation, BARBARA GOLDBERGButtons, CHERYL CLARKEgreen boy, KAI CHENG THOMHousebound, AMY GERSTLERMore or Less Love Poems #7, DIANE DI PRIMAI Love It When, SHARON OLDSFloating Islands, ENID SHOMERHold Back, ROBIN BECKERI Live My Life by Three Minute Phone Calls, LAURA BOSSIn Celebration, ELLEN BASSSomething Like Rivers Ran, SANDRA CISNEROSOn a night of the full moon, AUDRE LORDEThis Corner of the Western World, JENNIFER CHANGAmazon Twins, OLGA BROUMASThe Sad Truth, ELLEN BASS2 AM, DORIANNE LAUX(The Floating Poem, Unnumbered), ADRIENNE RICHBlindfolds, Ropes, SHERYL ST. GERMAINI Have No Use for Virgins, JANE HIRSHFIELDIII. WHEN THIS OLD BODYGate C22, ELLEN BASSWhat Humans Do, WENDY VIDELOCKKisses, KIM ADDONIZIOYour Fingers Are Still, CHRYSTOSWet, CAROLYN CREEDONLove Poem, AUDRE LORDEPhenomenal Woman, MAYA ANGELOUhomage to my hips, LUCILLE CLIFTONFreed Up, WENDY BARKERTo Endings, KATHERINE RIEGELMarriage Without Sex, ELLEN BASSFour Beginnings / for Kyra, OLGA BROUMASthe wounded for healing, KAI CHENG THOMThe animal kingdom, MARGE PIERCYDrowning in Paradise, ADA LIMÓNDulzura, SANDRA CISNEROSEcstasy, SHARON OLDSAfter Love, MAXINE KUMINAfterwards, DORIANNE LAUXWatching You in the Mirror, ALICE FRIMANOf Gravity & Angels, JANE HIRSHFIELDIntegrity, LORNA DEE CERVANTESSearching for the Comet, DIANE ACKERMANUs, ANNE SEXTONSummer Solstice, STACIE CASSARINOSong of the Current at Cape Horn, DIANE ACKERMANWe Thought of Each Other as Food, ROBIN BECKERmary, LUCILLE CLIFTONThe Encounter, LOUISE GLÜCKForeshadows, BARBARA GOLDBERGThe Return, MOLLY PEACOCKThe Long Tunnel of Wanting You, ERICA JONGMaking Love to You When You're Far Away, ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMINGFeasting, ELIZABETH W. GARBERGod/Love Poem, LENORE KANDELDoomsday, MAURYA SIMONNotes on Desire, EVE ALEXANDRAautopsky, KAI CHENG THOMUntitled (When this old body), GRACE PALEYJanuary Vineyards, RUTH L. SCHWARTZThere's Nothing More, WENDY VIDELOCK

Enid Shomer, Anthology EditorPoet and fiction writer Enid Shomer is the author of four books of poetry and three of fiction, most recently the novel The Twelve Rooms of the Nile (Simon & Schuster, 2012). Her work has been collected in more than fifty anthologies and textbooks, including POETRY: A Harper Collins Pocket Anthology, Best American Poetry, and New Stories from the South. Two of her books, Stars at Noon (poetry) and Imaginary Men (short fiction), were the subject of feature interviews on NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered. In 2013, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Writing from the Florida Humanities Council.

All We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women was featured in the July 2019 issue of Cosmopolitan"All We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women is a breathtaking, eros driven, somatic poetic loveletter to women's bodies. So many of the poets who changed my life and writing live inside this book, and isn't that the truth of it, that poets give our desires and ecstasies back to us? I read it with my whole body, dripping with delight." —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan“I absolutely loved these poems and devoured them in one night— like a lover who wants to take her time but can’t. They reminded me of what I first learned stealing Erica Jong off my mom’s shelf when I was a teenager: sex is the force that drives the world, and women writing about it, with all that energy, particularity, sensuality, and humor, is the powerful force that cracks the world open.” ―Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us and The Lost Family"It's the verve of the lines in each of these poems that will electrify a reader. [. . .] Many of the poems play with the language of the erotic the same way lovers play, with a potent and beguiling imagination for both what's observed and experienced. [. . .] The anthology's poems tie love and passion together brilliantly, striking readers as much with their music and magic as their erotic energy." ―Apalachee Review

• ALL WE KNOW OF PLEASURE:Poetic Erotica by WomenEdited and with an Introduction by Enid ShomerI. THE DISCOVERY OF SEXWoman Reading, KATHLEEN FLENNIKENIn Ecstasy, ERIN BELIEUShe Lays, MOLLY PEACOCKPracticing, MARIE HOWECorinna, Deplaning In Pittsburgh, Looks For Tessera, Her Friend from Summer Camp, STEPHANIE BURTAt Seventeen, ELIZABETH ALEXANDERFirst Sex, SHARON OLDSStairway to Heaven, JILL BIALOSKYThe Sisters of Sexual Treasure, SHARON OLDSBar Napkin Sonnet #11, MOIRA EGANHave You Ever Faked an Orgasm?, MOLLY PEACOCKFast Gas, DORIANNE LAUXMy Diamond Stud, ALICE FULTONThe 4-Barrel Carburetor On a ’72 Chevy Camaro, LORNA DEE CERVANTES“What Do Women Want?”, KIM ADDONIZIONavy, BARBARA O’DAIRPreference, BETH GYLYSYour Shower, NIKKI GIOVANNIYour Hands, ANGELINA WELD GRIMKÉFishing Seahorse Reef, ENID SHOMERWhen Man Enters Woman, ANNE SEXTONChina, DORIANNE LAUXThe Source, SHARON OLDSThe French Bed, IDRIS ANDERSONBreasts, MAXINE CHERNOFFWet, MARGE PIERCYDream Lover,AMY EDGINGTONLullaby, MOLLY PEACOCKOrion’s Belt, BRENDA HILLMANAttraction, ENID SHOMERSpace Race, COLETTE LABOUFF ATKINSONThe Shyness, SHARON OLDSDesire, DEIDRE POPESkylight, JAYNE RELAFORD BROWNBlack Slip, TERRY WOLVERTONFirst Poem for You, KIM ADDONIZIOThe Lovers, DORIANNE LAUXDirections, KATHERINE RIEGELThe Discovery of Sex, DEBRA SPENCERDesire, JANE HIRSHFIELDII. THE ORDINARY DAY BEGINSKissing Again, DORIANNE LAUXThe Ordinary Day Begins, JUNE SYLVESTER SARACENOThe Knowing, SHARON OLDSThe Purr, MOLLY PEACOCKIn the Kitchen, STACIE CASSARINOTrying, ADA LIMÓNChrist You Delight Me, SANDRA CISNEROSThe Hummingbird: A Seduction, PATTIANN ROGERSSeamless Beauty, WENDY LEEDownward, ERICA JONGEverything Depends Upon, JANE ANN DEVOL FULLEREros at Temple Stream, DENISE LEVERTOVThe Best Seven Minutes of My Life, LORNA DEE CERVANTESAfternoon, NINA RUBINSTEIN ALONSOCurtains of Goldenrod, DIANE ACKERMANCapitulation, BARBARA GOLDBERGButtons, CHERYL CLARKEgreen boy, KAI CHENG THOMHousebound, AMY GERSTLERMore or Less Love Poems #7, DIANE DI PRIMAI Love It When, SHARON OLDSFloating Islands, ENID SHOMERHold Back, ROBIN BECKERI Live My Life by Three Minute Phone Calls, LAURA BOSSIn Celebration, ELLEN BASSSomething Like Rivers Ran, SANDRA CISNEROSOn a night of the full moon, AUDRE LORDEThis Corner of the Western World, JENNIFER CHANGAmazon Twins, OLGA BROUMASThe Sad Truth, ELLEN BASS2 AM, DORIANNE LAUX(The Floating Poem, Unnumbered), ADRIENNE RICHBlindfolds, Ropes, SHERYL ST. GERMAINI Have No Use for Virgins, JANE HIRSHFIELDIII. WHEN THIS OLD BODYGate C22, ELLEN BASSWhat Humans Do, WENDY VIDELOCKKisses, KIM ADDONIZIOYour Fingers Are Still, CHRYSTOSWet, CAROLYN CREEDONLove Poem, AUDRE LORDEPhenomenal Woman, MAYA ANGELOUhomage to my hips, LUCILLE CLIFTONFreed Up, WENDY BARKERTo Endings, KATHERINE RIEGELMarriage Without Sex, ELLEN BASSFour Beginnings / for Kyra, OLGA BROUMASthe wounded for healing, KAI CHENG THOMThe animal kingdom, MARGE PIERCYDrowning in Paradise, ADA LIMÓNDulzura, SANDRA CISNEROSEcstasy, SHARON OLDSAfter Love, MAXINE KUMINAfterwards, DORIANNE LAUXWatching You in the Mirror, ALICE FRIMANOf Gravity & Angels, JANE HIRSHFIELDIntegrity, LORNA DEE CERVANTESSearching for the Comet, DIANE ACKERMANUs, ANNE SEXTONSummer Solstice, STACIE CASSARINOSong of the Current at Cape Horn, DIANE ACKERMANWe Thought of Each Other as Food, ROBIN BECKERmary, LUCILLE CLIFTONThe Encounter, LOUISE GLÜCKForeshadows, BARBARA GOLDBERGThe Return, MOLLY PEACOCKThe Long Tunnel of Wanting You, ERICA JONGMaking Love to You When You're Far Away, ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMINGFeasting, ELIZABETH W. GARBERGod/Love Poem, LENORE KANDELDoomsday, MAURYA SIMONNotes on Desire, EVE ALEXANDRAautopsky, KAI CHENG THOMUntitled (When this old body), GRACE PALEYJanuary Vineyards, RUTH L. SCHWARTZThere's Nothing More, WENDY VIDELOCK

Enid Shomer, Anthology EditorPoet and fiction writer Enid Shomer is the author of four books of poetry and three of fiction, most recently the novel The Twelve Rooms of the Nile (Simon & Schuster, 2012). Her work has been collected in more than fifty anthologies and textbooks, including POETRY: A Harper Collins Pocket Anthology, Best American Poetry, and New Stories from the South. Two of her books, Stars at Noon (poetry) and Imaginary Men (short fiction), were the subject of feature interviews on NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered. In 2013, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Writing from the Florida Humanities Council.

All We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women was featured in the July 2019 issue of Cosmopolitan"All We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women is a breathtaking, eros driven, somatic poetic loveletter to women's bodies. So many of the poets who changed my life and writing live inside this book, and isn't that the truth of it, that poets give our desires and ecstasies back to us? I read it with my whole body, dripping with delight." —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan“I absolutely loved these poems and devoured them in one night— like a lover who wants to take her time but can’t. They reminded me of what I first learned stealing Erica Jong off my mom’s shelf when I was a teenager: sex is the force that drives the world, and women writing about it, with all that energy, particularity, sensuality, and humor, is the powerful force that cracks the world open.” ―Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us and The Lost Family"It's the verve of the lines in each of these poems that will electrify a reader. [. . .] Many of the poems play with the language of the erotic the same way lovers play, with a potent and beguiling imagination for both what's observed and experienced. [. . .] The anthology's poems tie love and passion together brilliantly, striking readers as much with their music and magic as their erotic energy." ―Apalachee Review

• ALL WE KNOW OF PLEASURE:Poetic Erotica by WomenEdited and with an Introduction by Enid ShomerI. THE DISCOVERY OF SEXWoman Reading, KATHLEEN FLENNIKENIn Ecstasy, ERIN BELIEUShe Lays, MOLLY PEACOCKPracticing, MARIE HOWECorinna, Deplaning In Pittsburgh, Looks For Tessera, Her Friend from Summer Camp, STEPHANIE BURTAt Seventeen, ELIZABETH ALEXANDERFirst Sex, SHARON OLDSStairway to Heaven, JILL BIALOSKYThe Sisters of Sexual Treasure, SHARON OLDSBar Napkin Sonnet #11, MOIRA EGANHave You Ever Faked an Orgasm?, MOLLY PEACOCKFast Gas, DORIANNE LAUXMy Diamond Stud, ALICE FULTONThe 4-Barrel Carburetor On a ’72 Chevy Camaro, LORNA DEE CERVANTES“What Do Women Want?”, KIM ADDONIZIONavy, BARBARA O’DAIRPreference, BETH GYLYSYour Shower, NIKKI GIOVANNIYour Hands, ANGELINA WELD GRIMKÉFishing Seahorse Reef, ENID SHOMERWhen Man Enters Woman, ANNE SEXTONChina, DORIANNE LAUXThe Source, SHARON OLDSThe French Bed, IDRIS ANDERSONBreasts, MAXINE CHERNOFFWet, MARGE PIERCYDream Lover,AMY EDGINGTONLullaby, MOLLY PEACOCKOrion’s Belt, BRENDA HILLMANAttraction, ENID SHOMERSpace Race, COLETTE LABOUFF ATKINSONThe Shyness, SHARON OLDSDesire, DEIDRE POPESkylight, JAYNE RELAFORD BROWNBlack Slip, TERRY WOLVERTONFirst Poem for You, KIM ADDONIZIOThe Lovers, DORIANNE LAUXDirections, KATHERINE RIEGELThe Discovery of Sex, DEBRA SPENCERDesire, JANE HIRSHFIELDII. THE ORDINARY DAY BEGINSKissing Again, DORIANNE LAUXThe Ordinary Day Begins, JUNE SYLVESTER SARACENOThe Knowing, SHARON OLDSThe Purr, MOLLY PEACOCKIn the Kitchen, STACIE CASSARINOTrying, ADA LIMÓNChrist You Delight Me, SANDRA CISNEROSThe Hummingbird: A Seduction, PATTIANN ROGERSSeamless Beauty, WENDY LEEDownward, ERICA JONGEverything Depends Upon, JANE ANN DEVOL FULLEREros at Temple Stream, DENISE LEVERTOVThe Best Seven Minutes of My Life, LORNA DEE CERVANTESAfternoon, NINA RUBINSTEIN ALONSOCurtains of Goldenrod, DIANE ACKERMANCapitulation, BARBARA GOLDBERGButtons, CHERYL CLARKEgreen boy, KAI CHENG THOMHousebound, AMY GERSTLERMore or Less Love Poems #7, DIANE DI PRIMAI Love It When, SHARON OLDSFloating Islands, ENID SHOMERHold Back, ROBIN BECKERI Live My Life by Three Minute Phone Calls, LAURA BOSSIn Celebration, ELLEN BASSSomething Like Rivers Ran, SANDRA CISNEROSOn a night of the full moon, AUDRE LORDEThis Corner of the Western World, JENNIFER CHANGAmazon Twins, OLGA BROUMASThe Sad Truth, ELLEN BASS2 AM, DORIANNE LAUX(The Floating Poem, Unnumbered), ADRIENNE RICHBlindfolds, Ropes, SHERYL ST. GERMAINI Have No Use for Virgins, JANE HIRSHFIELDIII. WHEN THIS OLD BODYGate C22, ELLEN BASSWhat Humans Do, WENDY VIDELOCKKisses, KIM ADDONIZIOYour Fingers Are Still, CHRYSTOSWet, CAROLYN CREEDONLove Poem, AUDRE LORDEPhenomenal Woman, MAYA ANGELOUhomage to my hips, LUCILLE CLIFTONFreed Up, WENDY BARKERTo Endings, KATHERINE RIEGELMarriage Without Sex, ELLEN BASSFour Beginnings / for Kyra, OLGA BROUMASthe wounded for healing, KAI CHENG THOMThe animal kingdom, MARGE PIERCYDrowning in Paradise, ADA LIMÓNDulzura, SANDRA CISNEROSEcstasy, SHARON OLDSAfter Love, MAXINE KUMINAfterwards, DORIANNE LAUXWatching You in the Mirror, ALICE FRIMANOf Gravity & Angels, JANE HIRSHFIELDIntegrity, LORNA DEE CERVANTESSearching for the Comet, DIANE ACKERMANUs, ANNE SEXTONSummer Solstice, STACIE CASSARINOSong of the Current at Cape Horn, DIANE ACKERMANWe Thought of Each Other as Food, ROBIN BECKERmary, LUCILLE CLIFTONThe Encounter, LOUISE GLÜCKForeshadows, BARBARA GOLDBERGThe Return, MOLLY PEACOCKThe Long Tunnel of Wanting You, ERICA JONGMaking Love to You When You're Far Away, ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMINGFeasting, ELIZABETH W. GARBERGod/Love Poem, LENORE KANDELDoomsday, MAURYA SIMONNotes on Desire, EVE ALEXANDRAautopsky, KAI CHENG THOMUntitled (When this old body), GRACE PALEYJanuary Vineyards, RUTH L. SCHWARTZThere's Nothing More, WENDY VIDELOCK