“The Beautiful Animal” is the Poem-of-the-Day
“The Beautiful Animal,” a poem from my first book, is the Audio-Poem-of-the-Day over at the Poetry Foundation. (Text version here.) Read more ...
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New poem in Literary Imagination
I have a new poem, “The Field,” in the March 2022 issue of Literary Imagination. It was inspired by Jen Grotz’s beautiful poem “The Forest” and its relation to Randall […] Read more ...
Vanishing Acts: Two Posthumous Translations by Frederika Randall
In the new issue of the New York Review of Books, I have a review-essay of two terrific novels translated by the late Frederika Randall: Dissipatio H.G.: The Vanishing by […] Read more ...
Two poems in Literary Matters
I’m pleased to have two new poems in the latest issue of Literary Matters: “Street View: A Visitation” (about finding my father’s image on Google Street View several years after […] Read more ...
“Alteration Finds” is the Poem-of-the-Day
My poem “Alteration Finds“—a trio of pseudo-translations consisting of a versified snippet of Rimbaud prose, a shrink-wrapped Rilke sonnet, and a “straight” translation of a Seferis poem from a language […] Read more ...
“Weighing Light” is the Poem-of-the-Day
The title poem from my first book, “Weighing Light,” is today’s Audio-Poem-of-the-Day at the great Poetry Foundation website. (Text version here.) Read more ...
New poem in Literary Matters
My poem “Losing a Staring Contest” appears in the latest issue of Literary Matters. I wrote it about my daughter when she was little, but saved it in the wrong […] Read more ...
“Forces of Nature” in Ecotone
I have a poem about my daughter in the fabulous new issue of Ecotone. This is one of my favorite issues of a literary magazine in ages. Read more ...
Two poems in TLR: Feverish
I’m delighted to have two pieces in the “Feverish” issue of The Literary Review: a poem called “Totem” (a sonnet about my father that owes a debt to the first […] Read more ...
New Poem & New Translation in Yale Review
I have a longish (for me) poem called “Midwinter Letter,” about the 2016 election and my father’s death, in the new issue of the Yale Review, as well as a […] Read more ...