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 ...

“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 ...