Chapbooks and Books
Traveling
Finishing Line Press, 2025
"With innocence and cunning Ellen Rosenbloom treads through fables, fairytales and a recipe for love. This is poetry that runs away from home and sets up shop in the most mysterious places, including the most ordinary of households."
–Frank Galuszka, the author of Cafe Vernacular, The Art of Tom Bottoms
"It's the "small" things that catches Ellen Rosenbloom's eye and ear in her book, Traveling—which is truly the glue that keeps everything running. Like a watchmaker, picking out and examining the wheels, pulleys and gears, then putting everything back, and putting the watch to your ear—that ticking, so everyday yet so beautiful."
–Cornelius Eady, Prof. of English, Hodges Chair, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Passing Through
Finishing Line Press, 2026
The poems in Passing Through are witty, direct, intimate, and subtly political. Through them, we meet a woman grieving her father, celebrating a great mid-life love, and contemplating life's gifts and contradictions. I read it in a sitting and immediately returned to page 1 to prolong my time in her company. This book is a delight.
–Ona Gritz, Author of Everywhere I Look, winner of the Clara Johnson Award in Women's Literature.
Rosenbloom goes to the heart of the matter, awakening poetry where it sleeps in the accidental dramas and unfinished episodes of day to day life.
–Frank Galuszka ,author of Cafe Vernacular
Ellen Rosenbloom's jaunty writings on everyday life—its simple pleasures, favorite foods, a beloved spouse—invariably lead to a surreal twist. Her new book of poems, Passing Through, leaves the reader mildly perplexed and breathless with wonder.
–Christina Waters, PhD., author of Inside the Flame, Parallax Press