PUBLICATIONS

A selected list of Oliver Egger's chapbooks, anthologies, articles, essays, and poetry. For a comprehensive list of publications click here!

I Said That Love Heals From Inside
Love Poems of Yusef Komunyakaa

Edited by Oliver Egger
Wesleyan University Press
Published 9/03/2024

I Ask My Mother To Sing
The Mother Poems of

Li-Young Lee

Edited by Oliver Egger
Wesleyan University Press
Published 8/19/2025

Surrender My Shadow to the Shadow of a Horse
The Horse Poems of James Wright

Edited by Oliver Egger & Suzanna Tamminen
Wesleyan University Press
Published 7/1/2026

Art created below decks slick with blubber and blood
Whalemen spent years crossing oceans hunting leviathans.

The illustrated journals they left behind tell us how they

lived — and very nearly died.

with photos by Anabel DeMartino

The Boston Globe
Published 6/10/2024

The shameful afterlife of the Fernald

School in Waltham
The institution for ‘feeble-minded boys’ named for my great-great-grandfather closed in 2014.

Why are confidential and sensitive patient records strewn all over the abandoned campus?

with photos by Bryan Parcival
The Boston Globe
Published 1/1o/2024

Oliver Egger and the Olive Eggers
A writer meets his namesake in a

chicken coop in Eastham

By Oliver Egger

The Provincetown Independent
Published 8/7/2024

The UFO in Truro
An artist’s vision shapes a movement

The Provincetown Independent
Published 12/27/2023

With Ulysses, Elevator Repair Service Captures the Wandering Spirit of Joyce’s Novel

The Brooklyn Rail
Published Feburary, 2026

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