Chapbooks

In an eerie real-estate-catalog-meets-fairy-tale voice, the poems in Kept Women describe the Playboy mansion in exhausting detail, though never directly reference the infamous bunnies or Hef, creating a complex commentary on the objectifying Hefner franchise.

-Amanda Montei, Ms. Magazine

Press

Kept Women as one of 10 Best Poetry Books of 2012 in Ms. Magazine

Review of Kept Women in Fanzine

Review of Kept Women in Anobium

Review of Kept Women in Lemon Hound

Review of Kept Women in Tarpaulin Sky

Review of Kept Women in Montevideo

Review of E! Entertainment in thethepoetry

Interview about E! the chapbook in thethepoetry

Interview about E! the chapbook with Alissa Nutting in the Offending Adam

Review of Fragment's Found in a 1937 Aviator's Boot in Coldfront

Review of Fragments Found in a 1937 Aviator's Boot in The Nervous Breakdown

There is something disturbingly ‘unattended’ about [Durbin’s work]…as if it, and, indeed, E! itself, like Lynch’s Club Silencio…are, conceivably, ‘all a tape recording.’ But the surveillance-or-theater question remains key; Durbin doesn’t explicate. As readers, we’re left to navigate possible meanings with no tools but our own understanding of the absurd and…strangely…our own conscience. It’s an ingenious strategy that has the boldness to potentially dismiss itself as literature…just as its subject, reality TV, is so often summarily dismissed. - Lisa Flowers, thethepoetry