Amy Bornman rearranges the furniture
Circling Issue #27, featuring Amy Bornman
is a poet, textile artist, and parent living in Pittsburgh, PA. She is the author of two books of poetry, Broken Waters (Fernwood Press, 2024), and There is a Future (Paraclete Press Poetry, 2020), and co-author of How to Sew Clothes (Abrams Books, 2023). She also publishes short-run pamphlets via her small press, Imaginary Lake, and designs sewing patterns. Amy’s work focuses on themes of domesticity, caregiving, confession, and spirituality.
Amy’s writing and textile practice formed part of our shared Circling vocabulary long before we ever articulated it as a project, and so it was a real pleasure for Krystiana and I to speak with her just a few weeks after the publication of Broken Waters. I’ve so appreciated Amy’s writing about her experience of pregnancy and parenting—themes at the heart of this new poetry collection, and woven throughout our conversation alongside an evident joy in materiality and deep thoughtfulness which she brings to her work and the domestic touchstones whi…