The Post Office

The text of this opera in poems was developed in collaboration with composer Laura Kaminsky, whose first opera at Brooklyn Academy of Music, As One, is one of the most produced contemporary operas worldwide with over 60 productions to date. Elaine Sexton is a maker, critic, teacher, and librettist. The Post Office: An Opera in Poems is her six collection of poetry, and first libretto, written in collaboration with composer Laura Kaminsky. She is 2026 NY State Council for the Arts Grantee for this work. Her poems are widely anthologized and published in journals including Poetry, O! the Oprah Magazine, with recent work in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry International. A member of the National Book Critics Circle, former senior editor of ARTnews, and visual arts editor for Tupelo Quarterly, her art and book reviews have appeared in Art in America, ARTnews, Art New England, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, and On the Seawall. Sexton lives in New York and teaches at the Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute.