His untitled self-elegy (sometimes given its first line as ... In the coming months we will be reaching out to contemporary poets for examples of current, primarily formalist work, to show that poetry ...

I hoped to find you in every elegy they wrote ... The Post Bulletin publishes poetry by local and area writers every Tuesday. Send poems to [email protected] with the subject line "Poetry ...

Then, in searching for a sample poem for this column, I found the one I finally had written, 17 years later, in remembrance of that day. I suppose it is an elegy of sorts. Elegies usually are ...

This poem explores all the distances between mothers and their children, the frayed seams between countries and cultures. It is also a poem of love and understanding, as if love is a way to the ...