The Tongue They Shared
Moonstone Press, 2021
Runner-up in Moonstone Arts’ 2021 Chapbook Contest.
Paul Siegell spins you a couple times and gently pushes you into the Poetry Funhouse. You can hear this poetry breaking through to a new language – with a Philadelphia accent.
—Leonard Gontarek
Take Out Delivery
Spuyten Duyvil, 2018
Siegell is part jester, part messenger. These are exuberant, encyclopedic poems, & reading them feels like being at a fireworks show whose explosions morph into exposé, whose riffs of light & boom contort into a quixotic biopic of our world.
—Kevin Varrone
wild life rifle fire
Otoliths Books, 2010
Goodreads Choice Awards Best Poetry nominee.
A stunningly beautiful work of hyper-clean concrete poetry. This is a book examining language, finding tricks in the language that the language couldn’t know it had.
—Geof Huth
jambandbootleg
A-Head Publishing, 2009
For centuries, people have tried to take words and turn them into music. What Paul Siegell does in his collection of poetry, jambandbootleg, is take music and turn it back into words. And he does it exceptionally well.
—Marc Brownstein, The Disco Biscuits
Poemergency Room
Otoliths Books, 2008
Something HUGE flexes joy here! This is the suicide by cop where banging cymbals rip the portal open! Poetry is the daily political at every mouthful of Siegell as dots connect dimension to dementia!
—CAConrad