Karl Kirchwey

Karl Kirchwey is the author of seven books of poems. His eighth, Good Apothecary, is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press in 2025. Sections of his ongoing long poem Mutabor have appeared in journals since 2011. He teaches in the MFA programs in Creative Writing and in Literary Translation at Boston University.

  • Three Poems

    I dropped a sprig of laurel into your grave
  • California King, Head of the Meadow and A Miracle of Saint Anthony

    The little bright red car
  • Edinburgh University Anatomical Collection

    Take shelter awhile from mortality
  • Edinburgh University Anatomical Collection

    Take shelter awhile from mortality
  • Aperol-Spritz | Padua

    Across the river from the Grossmünster
  • To a High Aircraft | Palazzo Maldura

    While now by slow degrees
  • The Tiger | Friendship  

    In a tourist magazine about the amusements of Rome,