Clare Rossini

Clare Rossini’s third collection, Lingowas published by University of Akron Press. Her poems and essays have appeared in such venues as The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review,  Ploughshares, Poetry, and the Best American Poetry series. The Poetry of Capital, an anthology Rossini co-edited, was published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2021.  After forty-plus years of college teaching, she has just retired as Artist-in-Residence in the English Department at Trinity College.

  • Coffee on the Stoop

    In the yard across the way, the neighbor’s cat—
  • AFTERNOON AT THE METROPOLITAN, NYC

    Against the mauve wall, a Flegel
  • JIGSAW

    Where in the world does it fit
  • The Albino Squirrel

    Bury it, I said.  In the field.  No,
  • From a Bench at MOMA

    Don’t wanna, don’t wanna,