Emily Fragos

Emily Fragos is the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, the Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and the Witter Bynner Poetry Fellowship from the Library of Congress. She is the author of four books of poetry: Little Savage (Grove Press, 1996); Hostage (Sheep Meadow Press, 2011); Saint Torch (Sheep Meadow Press, 2017); and Unrest (Sheep Meadow Press, 2021); and the editor of seven poetry anthologies for The Everyman’s Pocket Library: The Letters of Emily Dickinson, Art & Artists, The Dance, Music’s Spell, The Great Cat, Poems of Gratitude, Poems of Paris. Her poems have appeared widely in journals and magazines. She has also written numerous articles on music and dance for arts publications and served as guest poetry editor for Guernica. Emily Fragos has taught at Columbia, Yale, and NYU.

  • Elegy

    The floor is littered with clothes I once wore