Poems

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  • Poet’s Walk, Central Park Mall

    Shakespeare, Robert Burns, and Fitz-Greene Halleck
  • Edna St. Vincent, M.F.A.

    Chic and petite, blind to her destiny
  • On Being Mused Upon

    Reading his poems, you recognize yourself
  • Dollymix translated from Swedish by Kristina Andersson Bicher

    You – in a violet dress. A radiant, billowing circle in a wreath of sun.
  • The Names

    My student Natasha, who is Greek but is now living in Turkey,
  • Two Poems by George Seferis, translated from modern Greek by Jennifer R. Kellogg

    George Seferis, Two Poems,  translated from modern Greek by Jennifer R. Kellogg     Holy Saturday   Tomorrow, the brilliant light of Easter. It will rain, but at least we won’t be in the office. The lambs, in the oven, remind me of a huge nursery.   Korce, Albania 5.1.1937     Μεγάλο Σάββατο   Αύριο Λαμπρή. Βρέχει αλλά δε

  • Blond for All the Boys

    Frank Ocean didn’t mean anything to me till Dave said check
  • Halloween

    No gazette ran the story,
  • Early Christianity: A Poem | Rome

    OK, says James, let them keep their foreskins.
  • Archaic Rayon Kamehameha

    Blue eyes like dusty Santa Rosa plums,
  • Two Poems translated from the Persian by Sholeh Wolpé

    I’ve heard the volley of a thousand soldiers,
  • Maria’s Yellow Coat

    I haven’t had