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Category Archives: poems
Regarding the Line
Excerpts of this piece appeared in the “Cataloging the Line” edition of Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets. It contains some thoughts about lineation and what I often describe as “the tension of the sentence against the line.” … Continue reading
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Tagged #best american poetry 2020, #line in poetry, #poetic line, "cataloging the line"
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“Subway Elegy” in Beloit Poetry Journal
This is a wonderful issue of Beloit Poetry Journal and it’s an honor to be in it! The poem appears on Verse Daily today. I actually have two poems titled “Subway Elegy” in my current book manuscript. This is (at … Continue reading
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Tagged beloit poetry journal, elegy, subway elegy, verse daily
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New poems in Terrain.org and The Night Heron Barks
Just catching up on some recently published poems. It’s my first appearance in both of these outlets, and I’m really delighted by both of them, having admired each for a long time: “Meteor Crater,” “Cabin,” and “Feel” in Terrain.org. This … Continue reading
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Tagged cabin, feel, meteor crater
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“Overheard: ‘We are all God’s poems'”
Written in response to an anthology prompt, this poem appears on the first day of National Poetry Month in EcoTheo Review: “Overheard: ‘We are all God’s poems’”
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“On Merrion Street” in the Los Angeles Review
I drafted this poem a few days after meeting up with Eavan Boland for a happy lunch and walk in Dublin between Christmas and New Year’s 2018, and revised it over the next year or so. It felt elegiac then. … Continue reading
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“Shelter”
A poem about staying “safer at home” during the pandemic: “Shelter” in ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action.
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The Arkansas International, #8
The Spring 2020 issue of the Arkansas International will be online for a month. It includes some beautiful work, including translations of Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian by Ahmad Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey from the forthcoming collection Lean Against This Late Hour (Penguin … Continue reading
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“Thirty-Year Friendship”
“Thirty-Year Friendship” is the third poem I’ve published so far from my third-book manuscript, which I’ve been working on for several years. It appeared this month in SWWIM Every Day, a thoughtfully and deftly curated (if I do say so … Continue reading
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“Yes and No”
I published two poems in 2018, “Yes and No” in Ploughshares (not currently available online) and this poem, “A Liking for Clocks,” in Poetry Ireland Review. These are the first two poems I’ve published from the manuscript I’m working on now, and it was … Continue reading
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Tagged clock poems, new poems, poems, time machine, time poems
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Renga for Obama
The Harvard Review is hosting a celebratory “Renga for Obama” on the conclusion of our 44th president’s second term. A renga is a Japanese collaborative form consisting of linked stanzas composed in pairs. A new pair of stanzas appears each day—a traditional haiku(which … Continue reading