Jay Parini

Jay Parini is a poet, novelist, and biographer who teaches at Middlebury College.  His latest volume of poems is NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS: 1975-2015.  BORGES AND ME, a memoir of his travels in the highlands of Scotland with Jorge Luis Borges in 1971, was published in 2020.

  • Elevator Boy

    All night I lifted them through seven stories
  • Into the Flame

    And you lay for decades counting sheep
  • Poem with Allusions

    The thoughts that come on little cat feet