Rachel Hadas

Rachel Hadas‘s new collection, “Forty-four Pastorals,” was published this spring (2025) by Measure  Press.  Now retired from Rutgers University, where she taught for many years, she sometimes teaches remotely at 92y in New York and also teaches private students.  She’s poetry editor of Classical Outlook.

 

  • Two Poems

    We were sitting and eating
  • The White Door and White Green Red Tree Stone Sun

    I made an offering and left the shore.
  • Same Screen

    Every summer the students at the Bread Loaf School of English
  • Moving the Piano and From the Cliff

    Compact and gleaming, black and white,
  • The Mind’s Meander: Indirection, Ambiguity, and Association in Poetry by Rachel Hadas

    I’ve been musing about the benefits of indirection – or call it obliquity,
    Issue #117 May 2021
  • Thanksgiving Near Cape Coast & Pine Cones: April 2020

    Churning along through viscous mud,
  • Cento for the Turn of the Year

    Assume nothing. Take a position:
  • New Math

    Out of the place I knew,
  • Rose-Scented Lotion | Blue

    The level of rose-scented lotion daily
  • In the Vestibule

    The in-between is queasy
  • To Urania

    Astronomer who rules the tides and skies,