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 ...
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“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 ...
Last Dream receives the Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize
My translation of the selected poems of Giovanni Pascoli, Last Dream, published by the excellent World Poetry Books in 2019, was awarded the 2020 Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize by the […] 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 ...
“The Mayfly” at Poetry Daily
My poem “The Mayfly: May 12, 1864,” which originally appeared in the Massachusetts Review, is the poem-of-the-day over at Poetry Daily. (It’s an imitation of Miroslav Holub’s brilliant poem “The […] 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 ...
Pascoli’s “Fog” at Poetry Daily
My translation of Giovanni Pascoli’s great poem “Fog,” which originally appeared in PN Review and just came out in the volume Last Dream (World Poetry Books, 2019), is the Poem-of-the-Day […] 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 ...