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Sample Poems


from My Destination:                                             Bop Bag
                                                                                 Fasces

                                                                                 Quickies in Widowhood

                                                                                 Book 13

                                                                                 A Monkey Thing

                                                                                 The Girl Grew and Grew, Her Mother Couldn't Stop It 
 

from The Year the City Emptied                            Owls

                                                                                  Daybreak

                                                                                  Autumn Song

                                                                                  The Goose (and Don Yorty on this poem and Baudelaire's original, "Le Cygne"

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from Women's Poetry: Poems and Advice            Econo Motel, Ocean City

                                                                                  Torment                                              

                                                                                  Women's Poetry

                                                                                  Ask the Poetess

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from My Brother is Getting Arrested Again          My Brother is Getting Arrested Again
                                                                                  Aunt Leah, Aunt Sophie, and the Negro Painter

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from She Didn't Mean to Do It                               She Didn't Mean to Do It

Sample Prose About Poetry​: Reviews, Essays, Interviews, Craft Thoughts, Collaborations, Amusements​​

On Frederick Seidel's So What

On Henri Cole's Gravity and Center

On Joshua Weiner's Nelly Sachs

On Adam Zagajewski's Slight Exaggeration

On Maureen McLane's My Poets

My Only Rule is to Break Rules: a conversation with August Kleinzahler about A History of Western Music

More Even Than Itself: on C.K. Williams' Invisible Mending

Silent Forests of the Heart: on Niina Pollari and the astonishments of grief.

Sing, God-Awful Muse: On Milton and the Nipple Nazi of Northampton

On Ross Gay's "A Small Needful Fact"

Why Does the Poem Work?: Rachel Loden's "What the Gravedigger Needs"

On Tony Hoagland's "The Change"

Mob Rules: On Charles Dickens and the tones of writing mobs.
On (In)sincerity and Philip Larkin's "Water" (with A.E. Stallings)

Possible and Impossible Truths About Reviewing
Does Poetry Have a Social Function? (with Stephanie Burt, Major Jackson, and Emily Warn)

Snapshots at a Conference

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Interviews with Daisy Fried

​At Zocalo Public Square

At Cleveland Review of Books

At Plume

At Divedapper

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