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Linda Pastan

Linda Pastan was Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1991-1995.  In 2003 she won the Ruth Lilly Prize for lifetime achievement. Her book, Insomnia,  came out in 2015 and A Dog Runs Through It in 2018. Almost An Elegy: New and Later Selected Poems, will be published in 2022.

  • Truce, Class Notes & On Rereading the 23rd Psalm

    My high school class of 1950

  • On Chanukah

    Isn’t fire itself

  • Corona & At a Time Like This

    A miniscule David without

  • My Obituary

    Will it merit a full column in The Post or The Times

  • Almost an Elegy: For Tony Hoagland

    Your poems make me want to write my poems

  • Dog in the Manger

    As if you’d keep your bones from other dogs

  • This Dog | 4 AM

    Maybe I’ve chosen life—not just

  • The Quarry, Pontaise

    To enter into the greens

  • Ferns  | Cycle

    Wind thrums

  • Cosmology

    Someone has spilled the moon

  • The Poets

    They are farmers, really--

  • God’s Man

    When I was twelve I found it

  • Imaginary Conversation | In the Orchard

    You tell me to live each day

  • Late in October

    Late in October, I watch