Rachel Hadas

Rachel Hadas’s most recent book is “Ghost Guest” (2023).  She has two new books on the horizon: “Forty-four Pastorals” for late 2024, and a prosimetrum, alternating prose and poetry, “From Which We Start Awake,” in 2025.  She taught  English for many years at the Newark campus of Rutgers University, and is currently Original English Verse Editor of “Classical Outlook.”

 

  • 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,