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August 8-12, 2022: I will be teaching an adult poetry workshop at Write On, Door County, in Wisconsin. More information here.
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Category Archives: poems
Poem for January: “Egg”
As I’ve mentioned, most of the poems in Unfinished City began as responses to the parashot, the weekly portions into which Jews divide the first five books of the Bible. It’s easy to see where some of them came from—the … Continue reading
As It Ought to Be
Today, the website As It Ought to Be is featuring my poem “A Newborn Girl at Passover” in their Saturday Poetry Series.
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Prince, 1958-2016
Six years ago, in a brief tribute to the poet Ai, I tried to put into words my sense of the way an artist’s work transforms when the artist’s life is over, and quoted Bishop’s elegy for Lowell: “Sad friend, you … Continue reading
“So thou through windows of thine age shalt see…”
It’s 104 degrees outside right now, and the air conditioning is not able to keep up–this afternoon the interior temperature has risen from 78 to 85 over the last few hours. Our fingers are crossed for the system to hold up … Continue reading
The Door Was Open and the House Was Dark (Seamus Heaney, 1939-2013)
“The Door Was Open and the House Was Dark” (from Granta) shows you how good even the minor poems of a tremendous poet can be.
Catching up
Random bullets of not having posted on the blog in months (RBONHPOTBIM): My poem “The Fear of the Dark” appeared on Slate a few weeks ago. (Wow!) We’re busy receiving and reading applications for the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. We … Continue reading
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“Storm” in The New Republic
My poem “Storm” appeared in the December 31, 2012, issue of The New Republic, embedded in Paul Starr’s review of The Signal and the Noise, by Nate Silver. Other poems in the issue: Benjamin Glassman’s “Sentimental Death Text Variation” and Allison Lemnos’ “Waiting … Continue reading
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Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012
Adrienne Rich was a great writer, a great woman, and she changed the landscape of American poetry. Now that her great voice has finished speaking new words, we will hear anew what was, and is, so necessary about her work. … Continue reading
Cemetery visit
The month before Rosh Hashanah is a traditional time for visiting the graves of our loved ones. All four of my grandparents are buried in Baltimore, so I’m making those visits only in my thoughts. Here’s a poem about placing … Continue reading
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